SAMOAN UNREST
A DEPORTED MAN’S VIEWS. “NO NEED FOR WARSHIPS.” (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, February 20. Arriving in Auckland by the Tofua this afternoon, Mr E. J. Gurr, the third of the European citizens to be deported from Samoa, stated that information of the warships having been sent to the mandated territory was news to him. Asked if he thought there was need for such action, Mr Gurr replied, “No, emphatically no.” Asked what effect the arrival of the warships would probably have on the natives, he replied, “I should imagine the natives will be amused more than anything. They are used to having battleships in Apia, and I should think the presence of two New Zealand ships will have no political effect whatever.”
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Southland Times, Issue 20417, 21 February 1928, Page 7
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125SAMOAN UNREST Southland Times, Issue 20417, 21 February 1928, Page 7
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