GERMANS IN TONGA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 8 February 1918, Page 8

GERMANS IN TONGA.

"WE DO NOT WANT THEM."

_T TELEGRAPH—PRE-S ASSOCIATION.

AUCKLAND, Feb. 6. The Premier of Tonga has submitted to the King of Tonga *n report on the foreign policy, in which he says he considers it his duty to lay before the King what ho believes to be the views of the T'ongan people about the Germans. "We do not want "them," says the report, "because they form part of a nation whose records of rapine, murder, and brutality have; never been exceeded. Wo would rather see Tonga cleared of them. I hope that this will be done. It is well known that so far only the business premises of Germans have teen closed for the purpose ot carrying on their occupation as traders, but these trading stations are still there, some of them occupied at present »y British subjects, who are .paying rent for them to Germans, and will, unless something is done, agniin. be opened after the war, and will again become German trading stations. The Germans will go on as they did before. Also, l-heir plantations are still occupied by them, and they are allowed to sell their produce from these places. I do not think that this should be allowed. I think these should be cancelled, and every German trader sent to some- colony away from Tonga."