In Samoa.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 18, 8 September 1914, Page 5

In Samoa.

TROUBLESOME CHINESE.

[Peb Press Association. 1 Wellington, September 7. ■The occupation of Samoa was marked by one collision which looked serious for a time. Owing to the dislocation of shipping, supplies had been running short. Some 2000 Chinese from the plantations crowded around the head-quarters, and refused to disperse when ordered. At length Colonel Logan ordered the Samoan police to charge the mob, which was done, the free use of the batons having the desired effect.

AFFECTED BY THE HEAT.

Wellington, September 7

Private letters received in Wellington by the Moeraki state that the hot weather is affecting some of the Colonial troops now stationed at Apia. “The heat,” says one Wellington soldier, “is very great, and I am looking like a nigger.” He goes on to say that it was a great sight to see the eight vessels making their way from Noumea —where a two days’ stay was made—to Samoa. Some members of the expeditionary force assisted in the troopships’ coal bunkers, and found tiie work very trying, on account of the heat, the temperature below decks being well over 100 degrees. “A report is current at Apia,” says one correspondent, “that a portion of the force now there is shortly to ho employed elsewhere.”

WITH THE MOERAKI,

Wellington, September 8

The Moeraki’s wireless plant worked splendidly throughout the voyage. The day before reaching Samoa the German plant was hoard working feverishly with a German ship. Evidently they knew the expedition was approaching, as they asked the German ship if she had seen any German warship on ' her voyage. The reply was not heard. Before the arrival of the expedition the inhabitants had been well fed with pulmlum of tho Count Bornstorff type. They had been told that the Germans were performing brilliantly in successful exploits on tho Continent, and that tho German navy had carried all before it. A British trader who gave th© native chiefs his estimate of the reliability of these bulletins was warned that he would bo severely dealt with if be again “interfered” with th© natives,