SAMOA AND US.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1925, Page 7

SAMOA AND US.

i N.Z.'S "ABLE PEASANTS." TRIBUTE FROM A TEUTON. LONDON, October 13. Amusing extracts from an article written by a special correspondent of the "Vossiche Zeitung" on New Zealand's administration of Samoa has been transmitted by the Berlin correspondent of the "Morning Post." Tlie writer of the article deplores the fact that former German colonies should have been handed to New Zealanders, who, he says, are able peasants, it is true, but without any colonisation wishes ,or instincts. j The article proceeds: "I have no hesitation, however, in declaring publicly that New Zealanders have shown themselves to be gentlemen. No harshness was shown to Germans interned by them during the war. Furthermore, Germans who had Samoan wives were, after tho war, again put into possession of all their property." , The German cor espondent says Hint when he endeavoured to ascertain whether the natives of Samoa desired to return to German rule, most of them replied: "Both the Germans and the New Zealanders are 'white men,' and both want Samoan copra." The writer of the article laments the fact that the Samoans sing "God Save the King" with the same feeling as they once sang the German National Anthem. He concludes: "Tlie Samoans are amip.ble. peaceable and amusing, but loyal they certainly are not."-—(A. and N.Z.)