CONDITIONS IN SAMOA.
CAUSTIC CRITICISM. PRUSSIAN FEROCITY EXCELLED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Nov. 3, 2.0 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 2. “ Then came the war and the seizure of Samoa by New Zealand, the mandate bureaucrats’ heel-clicking aides de camps, curt commands, grinding interference with the lives of both the natives and whites, and everything one thought the Germans might do but did not,” writes Mr Lloyd Osborne in introducing Mr N. A. Rowe’s ” Samoa Under the Sailing Gods,” just published. He continues: “ Tiie Prussians came from Auckland. They are still there alas! though somewhat chastened by the world’s opprobrium. Such a mixture of stupidity and despotic power has probably never been seen before under the British flag. The fate of Samoa really turns on -the decision of British nublic opinion, and Samoa’s only salvation lies in the transfer of the mandate to Britain.” Mr Rowe who was formerly district inspector in Savaii, described the permanent mandates commission as incompetent, ' and states it should, be* swept away. ... —■-
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18166, 3 November 1930, Page 5
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