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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1955Vol. XXVI, No.2

New Guinea Patron

p. 16 · Read in the full issue

in Skirmish

r'UR carriers with a New Guinc patrol received slight anr wounds and one of the attackii tribesmen was possibly killed ini skirmish which occurred a dar walk from Tari Station, Southea Highlands, in mid-August.

The incident occurred in a regii where similar local attacks we made on a patrol in August, 19U when a native constable was killeJ An Administration statement < August 19 said that skirmishes this type occasionally occur whenr patrol intervenes to stop fighting ; inter-clan disputes.