MISCHIEF IN TONGA.
ANTI-BRITISH MANIFESTO.
WORK OF A FOREIGNER. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY, May .11. A circular printed in Tongan,.' protesting against British interference in the internal affairs of the Tongan Government, has reached Sydney. It •warns Tongans that their country has been bartered by unscrupulous peopls of rank, who will forcefully take it, atod advises them to love their country, and instead of squandering the money received for produce on decorations for women, to use it to buy anns and ammunition to save the countiy from a big forceful grasping Empire. It demands that Britain should show proper respect for Tonga without violating the treaty. The circular concludes ; "God bless Queen Charlotte, who has no protector. This was written by the committee of a society who shoot people for the love of their country." . '■> The translator points out that the circular is ■written in such bad Tongan and is so worded, that it can easily be detected as the work, of a European foreigner. *
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18088, 12 May 1922, Page 5
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