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Evening Star, Issue 17192, 6 November 1919, Page 3

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WIITTF. !U:HIDKXr< PROTEST. XIAV ZKALAXD'S 'DESPOTIC MEASURE." Preis Association—By Telegraph—Copyrigit. Australian and N.Z. Cable Asscoiation. I.OXDOX. November 3. The Press Association has received the following message bv wireless from Apia. signed '" Croudttcc. chairman'':—"A large and representative public meeting of British, allied, and neutral citizens unanimously passed, the following resolutions, which have been handed to the Admini»traficn : " First, this meeting wishes to emphatically protest against the high-handed action of ihr authorities in establishing Prohibition in this territory by military proclamation. Wo claim that, if Prohibition" Is ri-Kcpfsary here. we. the residents, are the right one.- to decide the question, and -should have been "consulted. Whereas the use of the powerful machinery ';•]* militarism was impartially obeyed during the war, now. 12 months after the war has ceased, it is intolerable. It has raised intense indignation f,nd distrust among us. and,we urgently insist that such a despotic and utterly uticelkd-ior measure be withdrawn immediately. "Secondly, that- a petition be signea and presented to the Administration with a request that it be forwarded to the proper authorities in New Zealand. "Third, that «, copy of the petition be forwarded to the Colonial Office through the _ High Commissioner of the Western Pacific." 'The message adds that the petition, ■which is being eagerly signed, will to loi■warded by mail.