New Guinea is not a part of the world where white men can readily afford to execute one another. In all that wet island jungle, whose northeastern, German segment was put under Australian mandate at the end of the War, there are some 4,000 whites scattered among 700,000 blacks and numberless pigs, rats, butterflies and birds of paradise. Until last week the ruling Britons had hanged some 45 black men, not one white. But the elderly German gold prospector, Ludwig Schmidt, had gone too far.
"Old Ludwig'' and three others had raided a native compound for women. As they chained...
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