EXCITEMENT AT APIA

Evening Star, Issue 19765, 16 January 1928, Page 5

EXCITEMENT AT APIA

THE SAMOAN DEPORTATIONS DEMONSTRATION BY NATIVES. IBy Radio.) [Special to Press Association.] APIA, January 13. Apia is simmering with excitement to-dav over the deportation of Messrs Nelson, Gurr, and Smyth. Yesterday 300 Samoans rowed to Apia from Savaii and demonstrated along the beach front. The men openly carried cane cutters and knives, and a few bore guns, which were fired in the streets and in front of the Administrator’s bidding. At noon everything was quiet along the beach. The Tofua leaves at 3 o’clock this afternoon.

A QUIET AFFAIR

GENERAL FEELING OF RELIEF

APIA, January 13

The deportation of Messrs Nelson and Smyth this afternoon was a quiet affair, yesterday’s ebullition apparently having exhausted the enthusiasm. Mr Gurr is remaining in Apia for a week or two, when ho may go to San Francisco, but he will certainly he deported. Messrs Nelson and Smyth were accorded a farewell by the leading merchants of Apia at the office of Morris Hcdstrom, Ltd., and at the embarkation in the afternoon a Samoan chief whished Mr Nelson a good journey to “ carry on the good work.” There is general feeling of relief in Apia that the threatened thunderstorm was only a rumbling.