TROUBLE AT FIJI

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 110, 3 February 1920, Page 8

TROUBLE AT FIJI

ARMED FORCE PROM NEW ZEALAND i r A MISCHIEVOUS RUMOUR Snmn alarm has been caused by tho iniDosition of a cable censorship on certain noivs relating to Fiji, and the alarm has led to the circulation of mischievous rumours. One of them has been that there have been serious happenings at Samoa, but this is quite incorrect, and there is no speciij> cause for alarm about events at Fiji. There is a strike of Indian workers there, and this is a. serious enoimh matter for the industry of the sroim,/threatening, it may be, tho peace and order of the. community. The New Zealand Government has been asked to tako a certain action, and it is in resDect of this action, that the cable censorship is operative. ' Sir. Massev made a brief statement of the facts vesterday"There is nothing wrone: at Samoa. So far as I knoiv, evervthimr is all right, and going on well. I should think that this rumour must have originated from the fact that it. lias become for the New Zealand Government to send the Tutanekai to Fiii on account of tho striko there. This is being done simply as a precautionarv measure. A number of members nf the New Zealand Permanent Force will travel bv the steamer. There is no cause for alarm or panic, or anything' of that sort. AVe liavo been .advised that we should do this,, and we are sending the ship. ,1 hope that it may . not be necessary tor tho men on board to land."