REPATRIATION OF GERMANS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16856, 9 June 1920, Page 7

REPATRIATION OF GERMANS.

± EXODUS FEOM SAMOA. (rRESS ASSOCIATION telegilam.) WELLINGTON, Juno 8. With reference to tho recent cablo message from Sydney concerning the

departure of the steamer Main for Now Zealand with a number of Germans on board to be repatriated, it is now ascertained that the vessel really left for Apia, where she is duo in dav or two. She will there tako on board practically all the Germans remaining on the island. The -Main was formerly a German ship, and has been provided by the Imperial Government for the carriage away from hero of a number of Germans, some of whom were being eompulsorily repatriated, and somo of whom desired to be repatriated. Australia was allowed to send a number of similar people by the same ship. Tho bulk of the Germans sent on account of New Zealand are planters and othors in Samoa, about 200 in all. They are mostly full-blooded Germans, with no Sam'oan family ties. In addition to thesfl there were some thirty other Germans in New Zealand, who desired to get back to their own country, and it had been arranged that thev should be sent over to Sydney to join the Main there. Unfortur.atelv owintr to

.•xuiu lucic. uiuuriui.aiejy, owing to the advancing of the sailing date at Svdney, no time was allowed for these people to get across, and they were advised that they would not have a ehanco of going bv the Maiu, and probably not for several months.