UNREST IN FIJI.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 53, 8 February 1916, Page 6

UNREST IN FIJI.

PROMINENT BUSINESS FAN’S STATEMENT. NATIVES INFLUENCED BY GERMANS. UNEASINESS AMONG EUROPEANS Auckland, February S. Tbe Fiji correspondent of the Star

says: The Native unrest is beginning to exercise the Kuropean mind there in a greater degree. 'I bough theVe aie well-meaning people who will ridicule the ,idea of a Native rising, one ot the most prominent business men in Fiji, who is friendly with many chiefs after a two months’ trip in the Sizea!oke district, issued a challenge to the Government to disprove any one ol five statements, one of which m that several attempts had been made to aremv the Colonial Sugar Co’s. tram. Strong comment is made of the ■reedoin allowed German traders, and m fact not one o" scores of Germans have been interned. , The correspondent adds: lo wiia., extent the German machinations are behind the Native unrest it is »nU to estimate, but few people m « ,e now inclined to doubt that the le.Hocs are the inspirators of the Native prayers for the Germans’ victories and ol the Native belief in many d-^nels that the Germans are bound ° and there is disrespect on the p. the Natives for the Covenuncd ot Fiji.