SAMOAN DISPUTE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 73, 22 June 1928, Page 5

SAMOAN DISPUTE

BEFORE MANDATES COMMISSION. REPORT TO BE DRAWN UP. United Press Assn.— By Electric Telegraph Copyright. (United Service). LONDON, June 21.

Statements regarding the situation in Samoa were made to-day by Sir James) Parr and General Richadson, when they, attended a meeting of the Mandates Commission. The statements amounted to a summary ot the Royal Commission’s report. Special reference was made to tbo sale of cOpra. by the -administration owing to the low prices paid by traders, the application of the prohibition law. and the methods used to mflunce the natives against the . administration. The last including figures allegedly showing administration expenses compared with other islands, which Mr. Gurr (Admitted before the Roy Commission were erroneous. Members of the Mandates Commission asked a few questions, no tab J regarding the natives’ right to petition, but no new points were elicito. The meeting lasted for an hour and the discussion will probably bo hms - ion will later .taw UP report which Will not. be pnhhahed it i, submitted to the League Council in September.