FIJIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 16032, 8 February 1916, Page 6

FIJIAN AFFAIRS

NATIVE, UNREST FOMENTED BY TEUTONIC AGENTS. [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, February 8. Tho Fiji correspondent of tho ' Star r says: Tho native unrest is beginning to* exercise the European mind there in at greater degree, though there are wellmeaning people who ridicule tho ide;i of a native rising. One of the most prominent business men in Fiji, who is friendly with many of the chiefs, after a two months' trip to tho Singatokai district, issued _ a challenge to tho Government to disprove any one of five statements, one of which is that several attempts have been made to wreck the Colonial Sugar Company's train. Strong comment is made of the freedom allowed German traders, and on the fact) that not one of tho scores of Germans has been interned. The correspondent) adds: "To what extent German machinations are behind the nativo unrest is_ difficult to estimate, but few people in Fiji are now inclined to doubt that the Teutons are inspirators of native prayers for German victories, and the native belief in many districts is that the Germans are bound to win ; hence the disrespect on the part of the natives for the Government of Fiji.