Civil War in Samoa
' (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). Sydney, November 17. Arrived— s.s. Lubeck, from Samoa. There was great excitement in Apia when she left, owing to a tribal war which had broken out in the Island ot Tutila. The Taalantoo and Tualatu inland tribes are about to join Leiato, and if they do the whole of Tutuila will be inyolved in war. Plenty of ammunition is said to be available. H.M.S. Bingaroonia has arrived. The object of her visit is unknown, but the conjecture most frequently hazarded is that her commander has instructions as to the definite annexation of Samoa. The latest news states that the natives are now fighting in the Bay of Pago Pago, and that the town is destroyed. .No native houses are said to be left standing, but European property is safe so far, though the Samoans threaten to burn the whites out. ***" November 18. When the Lubeck left Samoa H.M.S. Bingarooma had been ordered to the scene of couflict, In the Island of Tutuila, it was reported, that fifty or sixty natives were killed during the hostilities, but the news lacked confirmation. Another ex* planation of the dispute is that the Roman Catholic natives and Protestants are making a religious war of it.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 65, 19 November 1892, Page 2
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208Civil War in Samoa Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 65, 19 November 1892, Page 2
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