WAR IN SAMOA.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 218, 15 September 1888, Page 5

WAR IN SAMOA.

A SHARP ENGAGEMENT. :

SEVERAL KILLED AND WOUNDED ;

FIVE THOUSAND. NATIVES.UNDER ARMS. (Fbom'.Que Own- Correspondent. ) ■■■■■' ■"■ ' ..;•''':"' ":. ; Apia,'September.4 f r ifcp is mow some time since I have writleii on Sanioan affairs, but as they have taken such a serious turn, it becomes necessary ?to again ;place them before the public." It is how 'more than twelve monthssincetheTamasese-. German Government was inaugurated here r and the; outside world: has4been= made to believe that everything was quiet "and the" natives" perfectly satisfied. > That this is not true, will be shown ;by the ; posi-, tion at this moment;^ \-'J?6r:'some * time pasb; there have been rumours of a rising on the part of adherents of llalietoa, the unjustly-deposed' King of Samoa, and although the Germans here have afiectecl; tq: despise these rumours, it was 'well known that:: sooner or i: later; these unfortunate 1 people would' be goaded by the tyranny of Brandeis,}theiGermad Premier, to some act of'; i rebellion. The ■ people have 'been' kepti in a>■;:;state of ff poverty, 'almost starvation, by: the *- rapacious !^r demands' of those in power for money, •'which' moheyi has been:,spent in,paying enormous; salaries to Germans, ior .whom': positions" have been1 found as magistrates, pilots; < inspectors; of* police, generals of ; the Samoan army, and 80 forth.;.',. ../.,,, ;,. ....'„. •„, •,!,.,;,> , ..■,, The natives have continually protested agaiust and asked to be relieved olsOme, of i the quite unnecessary taxation, but; have always been met .with tHe.threat, of interference from a: Germah man-o'-war; should they '-i refuse. ■,'. They have seen their king deposed and taken away.; they have seen their chiefs taken away on sinallcutters chained to tho mast in the;fidrco:rays of a tropical sun, and other .smaller matters' which couid not (have, happened ;ih anyothtjr country with a people,-;%ho wfire iaot full'of, patience and self-sacrifice; ; ; t THE LAST STRAW. It appears the • culminating.,,,point, was reached last week, when the Germans,^enjdeavoured to tho Saruoans to- give their puppet..the.name of Maliofcoa. . Therg is au' old-established custom amongst the' Sa'mbansby which tho people of each district at different times confer a name belonging to'such district on the parson most entitled thereto. v- Brandeis liadi called' the; pobple who had been the most ardent supporters of Llalietoa together and comniapded them to confer tijenaines belong-: ing to their various distriota on ;TamaseSevi As the ('poor wretches could not as they thought nelp it, they .proceeded; to :do \ so/I when '■■- in the 'midst of their discussions Brandeis proposed that they should give to' Tamas'ese-the,name of the',deposed Kingr Malietoa. Thiswasthelaststraw. Oppressed and: thfeatehed as the poor nativea were,, they at; once took to the bushj which in, Samoa means robeilion, ...... MEDITATEI) ArTAGK ON MUMNUU.: :Gn the nighb of August 29fch everything had been arranged for a: descent) updntße seat ■'■ of > Governmentj Molinuu> bub soiae traitorlni;the oamp'betrayed thßip^plana with result fchat Mulinua was that night occupied by German sailora and marines so bhajb theJfttptempt was not made. - Two days afterwards n party of 600 Samoans under the command- of Brandeis^; anti accompanied by -some of the Germarii in Apia, Went out with the avowed ob|ect of crushing the eO'Called rebellion, ifcap-. pears .they fell in with an outpost Of.' th& Malietoa party, consisting of about 30. men,; who bravely<!resiated th© attack,' indeei| so bra,vely that Branded »nd hia party re» treated to Apia, having lost seven men^ and.havingu great number wounded, N/ow cornea the lnost horrible part ot th©'etovyas told.by the natives, - The Malietoa party had three nien kille,d, {two takeq; prieoners, and i several; wounded, s■ 1$ by ea,id, by the Samoans of. C4,'afnasese'a party: vist - sosae' of the natives brought.in, :^he; ; : feeadi^ ,p| the killed ia . chaw tho commaijcte?;. One of the Malietoa party who 'waj killed, Sagafalapala, behaved wirti gr-ea^ b.ravery^ Upon his death the; natives wished to cut off his head, but this their commander would not allow, saying they must be content With, an ear-, winch, they at onqe deprived, the. corpse of. Thati the heads and ear were cut off is without doubt ? as I several of the residents here took pains to!! verify.as, far-'as ipossible; the frequently' exaggerated reports of the Samoans.. THE AIIMIES GATni^llsiG. Of course the die .was now cast, and fcho respective parties flocked to .tie, banners of, their leaders. . < ' j , > ■■';/ ' ' ■.. As I w^tQ^.-nfgHthGrQar^ Rt)Qut2;sß9 people about 5 mUos away under MaiietipiaV tlag, whilst the moat that Branded could

K*wlirT WMl '4oo' ftfiwa* ano^BM 1 fSuo,? ? aol Qn(l frcod tho Political .■ oa^SM hie9oltho British and Amcrl- , || n&rfcv <n or? aro' wifch the Maliotoa H KteLitfe;^ 1, that tho natives have M persecutiouß. Putlo«* throughout novoroy ;:^ Kj SAVAAIaSr?^ FLOGK TO THH..'!I STANDARD. S pi Malietoa part X the. iEWasag* «' #1 hood of JcuS:^; l !r°, is *™y fitea- f■ I Ifc is said that tV M,i;» tw , - , , ' 'fli to appoint a re ffi-£?»W,«>t«na ,|| consuls to that efficfc T f rlf^ $¥ fore^ n >! V| almost certain thaCiJ \T •" do"e ' 3C 33 91 merit will roeoiV« ,'lT™ m G°V c"V f I Malietoa party. ° tiw..'". j| McARTRU^ E^ SRS AL _ II U j,l lb from th^^eS^^SS -II ployed to assist Tamasese. WhiUtSn,^ #i bo Apia with a load of copra, their bS£i ,« stopped and their copra baps thrown^S :H and altogether they were treat, i L ft& .M insulting manner. > .^ y , |.-.| : Whatever may be tho final rei nit o! fiho I ! preseui fitrugjrle.'ibmußfi how bo cleiwffiS'isH it is impossib eto form a government amtor Hi I lamasoso with a rapacious Get man as Tre« ' if" i ARRIVAL OF THE N"EW CO^SUi; ' jj |j | The, Richmond arrived this tnnruke.S^oD ..The.new consul, Colonol do Coetlogan, W#H| | arrived, and so far has-created u'ti^Sß j I able imprefci ion. 4 dinner, attended by i 9 ; the residents here to the aarabiM«# lof about 60, waa give;, to the retiring Acfr-lfflH ing Consul, W. n. Wibon, Esq., on his W^d ! tirement from office. ..', 'I | The local Government have- adopted aja if very easy manner,of dealing with: prisoners: M:.l '. One of them, who had been1 arrested-iofc&i^si I burglary and attempted murder *as shipped | PMM Ito Sydney by tbc last trip of the Lubecft ;MHll Rather nice this for tho colonies V 1