GERMANY IN SAMOA
ENGLISH TREATED TOO WELL. WHY THEY ARK NOT HARSHLY USED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, AprU 29. Tbe ' Morning Post's' Berlin coiTes])ondent reports that tho Pan-German newspapers are complaining that the Germanising of Samoa is too slow under Dr Solf's administration, and that the latter has shown undue partiality to English settlers. Dr Solf, who is at present in Berlin, denies tho accusations. He eays that a certain amount of friendship must bo shown to the English, inasmuch as a great deal of German capital k invested in the English colonies, and ruthless treatment of the English in Samoa might call for reprisals against tho Germans in English colonies. Tho ' Rhenish Wcstphalian Gazetto' retorts that English mksionary enterprise is dangerously anti-German, and asljs whether Dr Solf can dispute the aspiration of every Englishman in tho group to see it joined to Australia or New Zealand.
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Evening Star, Issue 14554, 1 May 1911, Page 6
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147GERMANY IN SAMOA Evening Star, Issue 14554, 1 May 1911, Page 6
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