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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1954Vol. XXIV, No. 12

Telefomin Murderers on Trial

p. 135 · Read in the full issue

THIRTY-FIVE natives are likely to stand trial at Wewak, New Guinea, for the murder of Patrol-Officers Harris and Szarka and two native constables at Tele fomin, at the end of last year.

The trial was set down for July 7. Mr. Justice Gore will preside.

All the accused have been in custody in Wewak since the begin ning of this year. fl Commander W. Burrows, an old and well-known resident of Fiji— he was District Commissioner in the 1930’s —left the Colony on the June Oronsay to make another at tempt to settle in his homeland, England.