ALL TALK—NO WORK.
Passive Resistance Adopted At Samoa. WHY NOT PUNISH EUROPEANS. (Received 10.30 a.m.) SUVA, this day. The Apia correspondent of the "Fiji Times" states that Samoa is politically quiet. Some chiefs are adopting passive resistance, while one district has been ordered not to work or pay taxes and to disregard official functions. The majority do not uuderstajid the agitation and follow the chiefs, dominated by the European members of the Citizens' Committee. Mr. Nosworthy's instructions to cease agitation have not been carried out and two chiefs were sent to Apolima Island others being ordered to return to their own villages. Loyal chiefs have asked that Europeans of the Citizens' Committee should be punished. Samoa's production is seriously impeded. All talk and no work is the order, and a clan steamer has sailed with a shortage of 600 tons of copra.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 29 June 1927, Page 7
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