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...Zealand officials, sent as administrators to Samoa, raised their own salaries, emptied the Treasury, set up a virtual monopoly in copra. For paying the natives a higher price for copra than the New Zealand Syndicate, one J. Nelson, millionaire South Sea trader, operator of So trading stations, was hustled aboard a steamer, deported from Samoa...
Samoan nationalists have organized a Mau, a native League of Samoa, to further home rule. In the past eight years, every Samoan chief who has been at all outspoken in Man meetings has been exiled for from two to five years...
Last May another New Zealand plague ship was allowed to land at Apia, Western Samoa. Epidemic still rages among the susceptible natives. Over 1,000 have died...
...Smyth, patriotic Samoan merchant returned from a two-year exile incurred by asking embarrassing questions in 1928. Welcoming him at the dockside was a delegation of the Mau, and a watchful detachment of New Zealand constabulary. Leading cheers for the return of Al Smyth was the only survivor of Samoa's royal family, the High Chief Tamasese. In the excitement of the 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...
Evidence that Western Samoans have turned envious eyes on their eastern brothers under the administration of U. S. Cap tain Graham in Pagopago was published by a potent spokesman for the Man, the N. Z. Samoa Guardian...