“SLAPPED HIS FACE”
THE RATANA INCIDENT. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 22. Ratana’s party returned by the R.M.S. Niagara. Referring to the cabled incident on the voyage from Japan, Moko said that the trouble arose from the disagreeable conduct of -an American passenger on a Japanese steamer, and a New Zealander also behaved in a surprising manner towards the party. “I had to slap the face of the American, and the New Zealander, too,” said Peter, “and, as a matter of fact, what else could I have done? They insulted our girls and our whole party. I simply went up to the American, asked him if it was true that he had said so. When he admitted that it was true, I slapped his face.”
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Southland Times, Issue 19434, 24 December 1924, Page 5
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