SAMOAN NEWS.
By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright, (per press association. ) (Received November 22, 1,20 a.m.) Sydney, November 21. The German steamer Lubeck brings news from Samoa to November 12th. On November 6tb Tamasese had concentrated 3000 men in a fort at Point Malinui. and the next day the greater part of Mataafa’s force assaulted their entrenchments. After a tongh fight they were repulsed with a loss of 13 killed and 20 or 30 wounded. A numberof the latter afterward died. Tamaseselost 8 killed and 10 wounded. Two of his warboats were engaged, but did no damage, ibe wounded men were attended to by the surgeons of the English men-of-war. Mataafa’s force is now nearly doable that of Tamasese. On the 9th and 10th a dropping fire was kept up, but no harm was done on either side. When the steamer sailed the hostile parties were still facing each other, Mataafa is expected to win in the end. He is building a large warboat, and a naval fight is expected shortly.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8541, 22 November 1888, Page 5
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