Deseret Evening News | 1901-11-20 | Page 1 | New Guinea Whooping-Cough

NI GUINEA ItA K It If Causes tilt 1110 Natives to Sacrifice Many Innocent London Nov 20 Gee Oeo In his hili annual report on British New Now Guinea QUine tells a n curious story yf or native superstition which hilch Is causIng the Of Innumerable lIves liven it appears what slat whooping cough was introduced by b two white children ana 1101 spread with frightful rapidity It first swept a rt the coa coasts ts and an Is now ravaging ra aging the interior As the thid lie natives hold hoM that deat from Crom whatever cause Is al at always ways compassed by an on unknown en enemy emy omy only discoverable through witch witchcraft witchcraft craft whenever a village Is attacked II with whooping cough a it sorcerer Is con von consulted suited The hit hI tr r Invariably de another village tribe an nu culpable cuI liable a u midnight massacre of Innocent nt persons occurs