RETURNED FROM SAMOA

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLV, Issue 6219, 9 December 1914, Page 4

RETURNED FROM SAMOA

OI'FK 'MEN, AND PRISONERS. AUCKLAND, Dec. 6. Eight 'Genoaan and 'one military prisoner .aevc® New Zealand officers of the E Force, and 2-2, men retu- wed to Auckland to-night from San by the f (NaVua. The retuturned c #cers '' include Major "Pine* well and t "Japtain 'Eastwood.

I The niilit 'Utf'i jjttisoner'-'wa® a member of'the Ait/iUery Field Service Corps. He tried by a field pourt-imartial, < .an4l Sentenced to'ninety days imprisoi WMnt with hard labour on charges of wd drunkenness, i One German, for proceeding to the .American port ef Pago Pago without, permission, «i'> sentenced to three years' imprjsoni with hard labour, in the Mo'iii Eden Gaol. Another German, lo T ' SBsaulting * provost sergeant,., w a s sentenced to' two years' imprisoataen t with hard Mbourj and .others, for the' 1 * places of residence without .each seritehced' to s,' x , 1 months' imprisonment. The Inst German is undergoing. 120 day r' imprisonment, with hard, laboiir, for being out of doors, beWdea ltt* _ p.m. a,ini contrary, to regvlatk The leader of the Gett'nan party, when deprived of'fas' per¥6\ial "possessions at the ppljce Btation' to*night, voiced the feelings' <if hSih'se\" and'hiß compatriots with an empbfitii - "Gott in Himmel."