DESTINY OF SAMOA.
AUSTRALIAN VIEWS. By Telecraph—Press Association—Copyrisht Sydney, May 2. Referring to the recent cabled panGerman newspaper comments, Mr. W. 11. Hughes, Acting-Federal Prime Minister, declared: "No doubt the destiny of Samoa is of considerable interest to us. It would be clearly a source of continual danger in the possession of a Powjr strongly hostile to our interests, if it wero to be used as a naval base; but, subject to that, I havo never heard any suggestion seriously put forward Hut Australia should annex it."
Missionary circles are surprised at tho statement that missionary enterprise in Samoa is strongly anti-German. An absolute denial is given to tho statement; also to tho assertion that the missionaries had said or written anything in support of tho assertion that it is tho aspiration of every Englishman (o sec tho group joined to Australia or New Zealand.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1117, 3 May 1911, Page 5
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