SAMOAN MANDATE.

Wairarapa Age, 4 November 1930, Page 5

SAMOAN MANDATE.

LLOYD OSBORNE CONDEMNS NEW ZEALAND RULE. TRANSFER TO GREAT BRITAIN URGED. “PRUSSIANS FROM AUCKLAND.’’ United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, November 2. “Then came the war and the seizure of Samoa by New Zealand, the mandate, bureaucrats, heelclicking aides-de-camp, curt commands, grinding interference with the lives of both the natives and whites, everything one thought the Germans might do, but did not,’’ writes Mr. Lloyd Osborne, introducing Mr. N. A. Rowe’s “Samoa Under the Sailing Gods,’’ just published. “The Prussians came from Auckland,’’ Mr. Osborne adds. “They are still there, alas, though somewhat ehastened by the world’s opprobrium. Such a mixture of stupidity and despotic power was probably never seen before under the British flag. The fate of Samoa really turns on the decision of British public opinion. Samoa’s only salvation lies in the transfer of the mandate to Britain.” Mr. Rowe, who was formerly District Inspector at Savaii, describes the Permanent .Mandates Commission as incompetent. It should be swept away. (Mr. Lloyd Osborne, born in San Francisco in 1868, is the son of the late Mrs. Samuel Lloyd Osborne, who afterwards married Robert Louis Stevenson, and resided with Stevenson at Vailima. In collaboration with Stevenson he wrote “The Wrecker,” “The Ebb Tide,” and “The Wrong Box.” He resides in America.) .