SAMOA'S EXILES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 29 June 1927, Page 6

SAMOA'S EXILES.

The sUo<-e?s:\ e authorities wh-> ha\e ;-la\ see-saw with Sack's dest mirs ha\e :-.;n fund of exercising the arbitrary- ;v\ve: of de-.-.ra-tion. The late?*. ir>:an(v. • ! i-ourse. a' \ f.-v m ild example of the order to shift .:uart •--- They carried on wi; i a heavier hand in the da \- w her., as an old Auckland r..: :a:r. trading \;"'a expressed it, the Power? played a kind c: cutthi<<at euchre lor the trouKrsonie islands. It «a s hack in IS*? that a Power f.-«» a km;" and r-laytd the bullv : n Mr ■ u by carrying the aer-os-ed chieftain on th« •-■•Vend of the world. ZWic-re that the a~ 'r ;* L'oione! >teir."t>erger. an enter:>r:s:ng An---.-.-who had a short and livelv run ai a k — dictator at Apia. v»a> t.-> F:u jj v Barrac-outa. That ; *ist o\ er half a cv*"'- \ a -°- The native king Cv>-.->; ;<»- ~ Malietoa Laupepa. wh". :r. . rder wv? h - from l-onioardment i v the '""rern.an wa* surrendered to the Ccr:::an Cv.-u! a - A: .a }•- »as exiled rirst to tfc» Uirf-r.> r.s ;r. WV.* Afr. then to Germany. then t.. - T a'.u:t the Mar»h»" Island.-. The episode was the a ... . „ stronr-har.df d tactics :r , wh;ch the played the tyrant's [■art lust a« th-v Brit.<i;.'» and America'? rri^resenta::\l ...k-d ■ - Maii'-toa s I vanishment lartei searlv t ■*.. Then :t was Lis Mat'aafa. "tu:: after a 1: >-1 y perioi c .f -k:rn.:-h.re. hurnirg. head chopping and l--.n:Urd:r..-. Ir. \O-J he surrendered to British and < tr; r_ b j-.'- ~ at Manono. that beautiful. g-ntlv cund* - d :-'an : r — tweer. Upo'.u and Ar-'-im.a. First •h- Br" -ent him to the Tokeiau .-r t'r.i - n I-lard*.'ar.V then the Hermans took a turn a« gaolers sr.d se- • him to the Marshall I-:a•; 1-. Ho v. a= < \ war-, this time betvrwn old Mataafa a:.: h> rival * son. Then ""the German eag> k hs fangs into the iand" t-> use th- boa-tf-jl of the ""All Highest." ar.d vour.r Malie: 'f" ~-,d it expedient to" go an i live" ia Fin. In 1 -*0 pro-British chief Lauati, of mu;: Island, a-..' several others with their families were bariish'd to the island of Sair-au. ir. the Mar.anr.? (,:• • •- in the North Panne. There remained until 1915. when the Great War - • into our hands. Po.-- c ld Lauati r/.-r . lived to see his native '.and again: he died on 1 the return voyage. The lot of the r resent i--± ~ of petty chieftains shifted cn a few i_:l,--s t Ap-olirr.a j* certainly nothing t-> make a ;'u--a''out. But it will give Berlin a sovful e\ ::s- • emHark ..-a the officii Cctiva casiri gr k-■ v. | so wcIL " —TAL'.'F.V.