Descriptive note

  Newspaper articles and correspondence related to the ‘Caledon Bay killings’ and subsequent events, and include references to such matters as the original conflict between Aborigines and Japanese trepangers, the despatch of the police expedition to apprehend the killers of the Japanese, the spearing of Constable McColl at Woodah Island and public reaction, the stationing of police at Groote Island Mission and rumours of threats of attack on the Mission, with general comment on Aboriginal-Japanese relations and punitive expeditions. Some articles include photographs. So also A1,1933/7370; A1,1933/7632; A1,1933/8128; A1,1933,8459; A1,1933/8668; 1933/9792; 1934/1141.

Extract from Ros Fraser (compiler), ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Commonwealth Records: A Guide to Records in the Australian Archives, ACT Regional Office, Canberra, 1993’. As the above text was prepared to describe material relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, it may not describe all the material on the item.