SAMOA EPIDEMIC COMMISSION.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1919, Page 3

SAMOA EPIDEMIC COMMISSION.

COD. LOGAN’S EVIDENCE

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AUCKLAND, This Day

At the Epidemic commission, the chairman, referring to Colonel Logan’s I evidence, said what the Commission i wished to obtain from Colonel Logan j was evidence as to why the Pago Pago : olfer of assistance was ignored, i Colonel Logan here stated that “he j recollected the telegram, but did not recollect its offer of assistance, which j assistance, ho thought, might have referred to Mrs Mitchell, the wife of ' the American Consul, and not to the j-whole of the patients.” The chairman then asked Colonel Lo- ' gan, whether lie, having censored this telegram from Pago Pago,, and thus having weighed every word of it, did did not realise that it was an offer of help P Colonel Logan answered that “He did not read carefully as censor, it being in the nature of an official document. The offer of help should have come to him (Logan) direct, as Administrator.”

The Chairman —to Colonel Logan: ‘There was a feeling that you had! not much time for the Americans as they had not entered the war.”

j Colonel Logan: “Far from that. The Governor of Pago Pago was a guest in by own house.” The Chairman: “The fact that you closed down the Pago Pago wireless, do doubt added to that feeling?” Colonel Logan: “It was impossible for the operator to work 24 hours daily I took upon myself the responsibility of cutting off tiie naval listening.” The Chairman: “The operator said he was not overworked.”

Colonel Logan: “That was after th c curtailment of messages.”