Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment someone hit a constable by the name of Abraham on the head, with fatal results. There was a burst of gunfire. A moment later High Chief Tamasese and seven other Samoans lay dying in the dusty road. In revenge for the death of Constable Abraham came the peremptory arrest of 20 Samoan Chiefs, the ordering of the cruiser Dunedin to Apia, and Prime Minister Ward's threat of a still "firmer" policy...
...Pilgrims with a sadly shaken sense of its own civic virtue. While the other cities of the Republic smile with relief that the black spot has been presented to the Hub and not to them, the local city fathers run about distractedly hiding this and that issuing arrest warrants for authors, and crying libel before the public. It is a rather dreadful spectacle...