SAMOAN DISTURBANCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20918, 7 January 1930, Page 8

SAMOAN DISTURBANCE.

H.M.S. DUNEDIN TO SAIL. CREW REJOINING SHIP. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 6. The cruiser Dunedin will go to Suva at once and remain there in case she is wanted at Samoa. Some 90 members of the crew who are in Wellington on leave will go to Auckland to rejoin the ship to-day. NO FURTHER DISTURBANCES. CONDITIONS QUIET AT PRESENT. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 6. Sir Joseph Ward has received the following radio measage from Mr Hall Skelton, Samoa:—“Administrator censoring message to press, New Zealand. Shocking affair here last Saturday, Radioed Press Association ’demanding intervention. Europeans held mass public meeting; grave charges pending. Official'news as reported already sent incorrect on essential facts.”

Sir Joseph Ward, commenting, says the message emanated from a partisan source and must be weighed accordingly. He had no comment to make at present. In face of the many rumours circulating the public would be relieved to know that since the disturbances when the loss of life occurred, there had been no further demonstration in Samoa, and the conditions at present were absolutely quiet. The sending of H.M.S. Dunedin to Suva was purely a precautionary measure.