Bainings Natives Killed by

[?]argo Cult?

Bainings Natives Killed by New Britain Patrol

It is expected that the inquest into the deaths of five Bainings latives who were killed when attacking a patrol in New Britain in nid-June will throw some light on the cause of the whole incident.

WOUNDED native, Teingbem, l was brought to Rabaul on June 7 by a Catholic missionary from issawa, on the Bainings coast. He d of an outbreak of Cargo Cult his village, Alaisum, in the North inings. According to Teingbem, a tive called Tovil was the leader the Cult and only two natives, he d another called Prashun, refused accept Tovil’s ideas, rovil had killed Prashun and at :ked Teingbem with a knife, hough bleeding from a large gash his back and with a fractured ill, Teingbem escaped and walked e hours to another village and m there was carried for 13 hours a stretcher to the mission. )n June 10, ADO W. Allen, with trol-Officers Martyn and Walsh i 15 native police, left for the übled area. No news was heard them until June 16 when a runner orted to the District Office, kopo, that the patrol had been acked by apparently crazed ives in the vicinity of Alaisum, ,t the patrol had been forced to i in self-defence, and that five n had been killed including dl —and five wounded. Medical istance was asked for. ’his was sent and on June 17, District Commissioner, New tain, Mr. J. R. Foldi, and Magis ie R. Hall, two other Patrol icers and carriers left for the a.

Ir. Foldi returned to Rabaul on te 20 and reported that all was Bt in Alaisum. Two Patrol cers and native police were re ining in the area, n inquest in open court was ex ted to begin in Rabaul on June and was likely to last some weeks, ntil the inquest is complete, 7 the sketchiest details of the )le incident are likely to be wn —until then it is generally all down to some sort of Cargo t manifestation. Cargo Cult can, course, be a blanket-term to sr a multitude of sins. True go Cult is an anti-European, i-Mission movement that flares quickly and dies as fast. It is 3d on a belief that all the Euro q goods that flow into the otry really come from the estors of the natives and are ply intercepted by the Euro os and thus withdrawn from r rightful owners. The term, ;e days, is somewhat loosely 1 to cover anything from plain irrection to religious fanaticism.