INCIDENT IN SAMOA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20114, 27 November 1928, Page 9

INCIDENT IN SAMOA.

POLICE AND TAMASESE.

EFFORT TO MAKE ARREST.

NATIVES AND ELECTION RESULT,

An abortive attempt to arrest Tamascso,

prominent member of the Mau, was made by the Samonn military police recently according to information brought to Auckland yesterday by the Tofua. Some passengers said that when the police went to Tnmasose's village, which is about a mile and a-lialf from Apia, stones were thrown at then, and that the police, not desiring to exercise their full powers, did not pursue tho matter further. Apia was quiet and little was made of the incident. The Administrator, Mr. S. S. Allen, was said to be moving quietly, and, if asi ion was called for, ho had a force at his command which would be sufficient to deal with any such attempts to resist the law. Commenting on the incident tho Herald's Apia correspondent says:— "Tamascso has again had the spotlight put on him. On November 13 the military police sent out six of their members to bring him in under a warrant issued by the High Court, but for some reason, which is not very clear, tho arrest was rot made. It is said that some women threw themselves on Tamasese, and tho police, not wishing to hurt anyone, let (he matter stand over. "It is rather unfortunate that this should have happened, because reports allege that, a settlement of tho trouble was imminent. However, that may be, or may not bj. It is easy to say these things after trouble has occurred. Nevertheless, the non-success of the venture, to say the least, has not helped tho Administrator in any way towards conciliation. For weeks now matters have been very tranquil and the police had been doing excellent work in connection with offenders against the law, no much so that Tuvao prison failed to find accommodation for prisoners, Vaimea had to be reopened, and the police station itself called on to house tho workers for the Ciown."

Apia received tho results of the general election in New Zealand over the wireless,, and disaffected natives who read into tho defeat, of the Government of New Zealand enthusiasm for their cause voicod their satisfaction in pious expressions of "Glory be tc God. We have been heard."