Affairs in Samoa.
IBy Telegraph.] {Our Own Correspondent.) Auckland, This Day. The Star correspondent writes from Apia, Samoa, sth September : — " Sinco I conclndod my last letter the Germans have boen behaving as badly as ever. Tho Germans have threatened to punish every village oooupied by Malietoa adherents unless Bfaliotoa surrenders. Malietoa, however, declines, trusting when the mail arrives to find that England and America have not proved traitors and sold him to tho Germans after all thoir specious promises. A very small proportion of the natives aro supporting Tamaseae, and had it not beon for blindly following tho advice of the English and American Consuls, Malietoa could have swept the whole party off the islands, whioh would have effectually solved the difficulty. Defections from tho rebel party still continue. It is hoped that the colonies will wake up and try to prevent the final occupation by Germany of these islands, as suoh 8. result would bo fatal to the island trado with the oolonies."
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Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 69, 19 September 1887, Page 2
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164Affairs in Samoa. Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 69, 19 September 1887, Page 2
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