SAMOAN TROUBLE

Evening Star, Issue 20372, 2 January 1930, Page 9

SAMOAN TROUBLE

REPORTS IN AMERICA STATEMENT BY SENATOR BINGHAM Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, December 31. The State Department asserted that no official report has been received of the recent clash between natives and police in British Samoa, and unofficial reports emanating, from Honolulu that the United States may be asked to consolidate British Samoan territory witn American Samoa are treated with the gravest reserve. •. _ Senator Bingham, who is chairman of the committee which is drawing up the Act for the American Government of Eastern Samoa, stated; “I doubt whether definite information concerning Western Samoa can be obtained in an authoritative manner from Honolulu It is not the habit of the British to withdraw from insular territory, and. Ido not look for them to-do so in the case of Samoa, Our commission has obtained no information which tends to show that New Zealand has the idea of withdrawal in her mind, 1 or that the League contemplates changes in s the mandate of Western Samoa.”