Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 502, 21 January 1902 — FOUR-SCORE ISLANDERS SLAIN BY THE GERMANS [ARTICLE]
FOUR-SCORE ISLANDERS SLAIN BY THE GERMANS
BERLIN January 9.—A correspondent in Samoa writes to the Cologne Gazette giving a hitherto unknown explanation of the killing of Dr. Menke. leader of a German scientific • xpoiiition in the South Sea islands. Bismarck archipelago. The correspondent says that Dr. Menke and his party ruthlessly destroyed a number of palm trees, of which there were but a few on the island, and the natives acted in defense of their property. The German punitive expedition sent to avenge the killing of Dr. Menke and his party, which landed near ;he scene of the massacre k’.iled eighty one islanders.