POLICE AND MAU NATIVES
CONFLICT IN SAMOA, MAU CHIEF'S ARREST RESISTED. [Per Press Association.] Wellington, May 28. The Minister of External Affairs has been advised bv the Administrator of Western Samoa that the arrest yesterday morning by the civil and military police of a Mau chief named Leotu. wanted o n a charge of threatening to kill, was resisted and resulted in a small conflict between the police asid Mau natives. Arrest was effected without injury to the police. A number of casualties occurred among the Samoans but it is believed that none was serious. Spbsequent to the incident, Tamasese, the Mau leader, and other Mau chiefs, saw the Administrator and accompanied him on an inspection of the injured natives.
An overnight cable from Apia stated: Two Mau chiefs charged with assault refused summonses to attend court and intimated that they did not recognise the Administration. Military police arrested them on Saturday and the occasion was marked by an unsuccessful’ attempt bv Mau supporters to prevent the arrest, in which several of the Mau received damage from police batons.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 140, 28 May 1928, Page 5
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