SAMOAN PETITION
NUMEROUS PROTESTS RECEIVED
AGAINST IT.
A copy of the Samoa Times received by The Post gives further details of the petition which was presented by the natives to the Acting-Administrator (Colonel R. W Tate), and a telegraphed account of which appeared in last night's Post. ' Our Samoan contemporary records Colonel Tate as saying : "The petition was presented by Tole&foa, and while presenting it he desired to amend para-graph 9, so as to delete the request for American rule. I asked for a written draft of the substituted paragraph, and on receiving the draft had it read over to the assembly, when it was unanimously approved. . The'■withdrawal of the petition, and the meeting at which the withdrawal was effected, were reported at some length in the Sayali of Ist March, and no protests against the withdrawal have been received. On the other hand, numerous protests were received as to the petition itself."
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 93, 22 April 1919, Page 3
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153SAMOAN PETITION Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 93, 22 April 1919, Page 3
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