Wild NG Natives
pp. 48-49 · Read in the full issue
Clash with Pan
ANEW GUINEA police pattf 37 men fought a dayj battle with 200 screaming, j painted Mianmin natives im Sepik River district in Jam One native constable was inn and one native was ki I Sixteen natives were arrested!
The patrol left Telefomiii January 14 to investigate nun by Mianmin people. Miai bowmen had attacked a n bouring tribe, and murder©men, and kidnapped two woo The Administrator (Brigadil M. Cleland) said that the nn attacked the patrol two days a it arrived in the Mianmin The painted tribesmen leapea of the bush and sent a show barbed arrows into the patrol; Patrol officers ordered men to hold their fire, but cove manded this when a I constable was wounded in a The patrol opened fire anoj native was killed.
The attackers treated, with the patrol haii their heels, and 16 of themr arrested.
After the fight, the patrol 54 sets of bows and arrows 1 10 fighting shields within 70 ( of the battleground.
On moving deeper intro Mianmin country, in searen more murder suspects, the found a new ceremonial hove a village, with 35 skulls hs i on the walls and roof inside The patrol rescued one o kidnapped woman. The escaped back to her AtHc village.
One half of the patrol too< arrested men back to Teles while the other half searcher more murder suspects befoic turning.
The patrol was told thas.
Mianmin people had atf Atbalmin village to avengg killing of four Mianmin bd Atbalmin some time ago.
The region is one of the fel yet under Administration corr
> members of the staff of the i Department in P-NG, Miss r Curtis and Mr. Glen John were married in the Chimbu f the Highlands recently. They emain in their present posi at Kundiawa this year, when >lan to return to Australia and i Brisbane. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. and the late
Mr. N. G. Curtis, of Launceston, and the groom is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Johnston, of Ipswich. t The 32-ton trading vessel Anaconda, owned by Holland Brothers, of Mae, went on the reef about two miles east of Erakor, on the coast of Efate, New Hebrides,
on February 5, and became a total loss. Her cargo and engine were salvaged. + New Caledonia will have a mil itary band shortly. Sixteen musicians are en route from Marseilles to form the nucleus of the band, which will eventually have about 35 mem bers.