ARRESTS IN SAMOA
MAU “POLICE” ROUNDED UP
ARMED FORCE LANDED (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 25. The following radio message was received from the editor of the “Samoa. Guardian”: — ?. Administration took action, a large armed force from the warships being landed at 8.30 a.m. on Thursday to round up the Mau police, and the object was accomplished. “The Mau offered no opposition, but protested, though they submitted peacefully, there being no disturbances on the part of the Mau police, three hundred of whom are now under arrest pending nine charges to be laid.
“Mau meiribers ’expressed a wish to meet the Commodore of the fleet to discuss grievances, declining to confer with the Administrator.
“The Mau chief exhorted the people to keep the peace. Marines searched the native and European houses.”
(Special to Press Assn, by Radio.)
APIA, February 23.
White and Samoan, police, protected by an armed force from the warships, arrested about 250 members of the illegal police foi’ce of the Mau this morning. The arrestees waved their big sticks in procession, and they chanted tribal songs, but otherwise there was no disturbance.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 February 1928, Page 7
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