BATTLE AT SAMOA.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 58, 9 March 1889, Page 5

BATTLE AT SAMOA.

<8>" ■ OLGA TORPEDOES THE AMERICAN WARSHIP. Sunk with all hands,

London, March 2. The "Schesenger Zeitung," a Bresland paper, states t!.;U the German warship Olga bombarded Mataafa's

camp. The American warship vainly protested, and finally fired af the Olga, which torpedoed 'the American, and sunk her with all hands.

[It is perhaps an ungrateful task to impeach the veracity of another journal, but we have no hesitation in pronouncing the above report a pure fabrication. No later advices' Shan those which wore brought here by the Alameda can have reached Europe, and the intelligence which she brought showed that an agreement had been made between Mataafa and the German Consul for a suspension of hostilities pending further^ advices from Europe. Another rather serious discrepency in the " Zeitung's" story is the little tact that Mataafa's camp is situated inland, at the back of Apia, and the Olga. could not bombard it. A similar canard about a collision between the German and American warships at Samoa was published by a German paper a week or two ago, and may simply be set down as being of that class of story which tells of things which might have happened, but didn't.]