WHITE ENSIGN DIPPED

Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1932, Page 6

WHITE ENSIGN DIPPED

AX INCIDENT AT SAMOA

LONDON. February 2d

Why a New Zealand warship once dipped its Hag to’the London Missionary Society as she left the island ol Samoa, was explained hy the Rev. Reginald Bartlett in a lunch-hour address at the Memorial Hall. Loudon.

It wa.s the final incident, he said, m the story of the trouble between tlie Man, the Samoan Nationalist Party, and the Government. Samoa is inundated to 'New Zealand, and Commodore Blake was sent out to quell (he trouble. Mr Bartlett was in the island with a two-years 1 commission from the London Missionary Society.

The Man, !)() per cent, oi the male population, had gone into the bush, and owing to the mountainous' country, could not he found. It was Mr Bartlett himself, guided hy a secret messenger, who, lifted many nights in the hush, found the camps, and persuaded the lenders to come out and mc-i the Governor. Through this sm-ee-ts a second warship due to sail Irom New Zealand was stopped on the eve "1 departin''-, and considerable bluodslu-d probably avoided.

“The next morning,” said Mr Bari lett, “Commodore, (now Rear-Admiral > Blake, came to my verandah. ‘W<* are sailing in the jponunlie said. 'W«

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