SAMOA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 1 December 1920, Page 5

SAMOA

. • — ALLEGED MALADMINISTRATION. NAVAL BOARD'S INVESTIGATION. BY COiLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received Dec. 1, 8.5 a.m.) WASHINGTON, No. 29. Mr Josephus Daniels (Secretary to the Navy) has ordered the court-martial. of Lieut.-Commander Boucher, Assist- | ant-Governor of Samoa, whose charges of maladmnivtration by Governor : Teshune were followed by the latter's suicide. I The Naval Board, which is investi- ■ gating the Samoan administration, reported that there was no evidence of irregularity, and that the native unrest was influenced by Lieut.-Com-mander Boucher and others*