TYPICALLY AMERICAN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2283, 17 October 1914, Page 8

TYPICALLY AMERICAN

CAPTURE OF SAMOA. AS SEEN BY A 'FRISCO PAPER. Tho American papers which came to hand by yesterday's mail contain plenty of war news from various sources. Among the excerpts from tho San Francisco papers occurs tho following from a description of tho taking of Samoa and tho effect of war in, Australia. It is typically American 1 "The English forco, led by a Now Zealand officer, landed, made a prisoner of Dr. Schultzc, tho Governor, and lilsb tho wireless operator. There is a story that they offered, the wireless operator 100,000 marks to give them the German war code. But he spurned the offer and either hid or destroyed all his codo books and evidences. "The Governor and this unbribeablo operator were packed off to Suva, Fiji, as prisoners. Some 700 troops .with guns were left to entrench and hold Apia and all tho Gorman part of Samoa against any hostile forco, and the great, expedition went on to liammor at the gates of other German possessions in the South Seas, setting up other alien control over natives in far-flung islands. "This news of the taking of- Apia came on tho steamer Ventura yesterday. 'With it came the story of how Australia rose to back the Mother England at the first hint of war. Tho people surged in the streets shouting for England and the King. The volunteers rushed to the recruiting offices by thousands. The drill master was out in the field.. 'Australia is ready to put 250,000 men in the field, armed arid equipped, when England calls upon her,' said the Ventura's purser. 'You would think the war was right in their country and not in Europe, from the excitement among them,' said a German refugee from Sydney."