Armed Bluejackets Round up Mau Police
250 ARRESTS IN APIA ASKED TO MEET COMMODORE By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. APIA, Thursday. A party of European and Samoan policemen, protected by an armed force from the v/arships Diomede and Dunedin, this morning arrested about 250 members of the illegal police force of the Mau. THE arrested men waved their big sticks as they were marched away m procession and chanted tribal songs. Otherwise there was no disturbance.— A- and N.Z.
The following account of the occur**nce has been received by radio from the editor of the “Samoa Guardian”: . “To-day a large armed warship force landed at 8.30 a.m. The forces were °M 6red to rounci U P Mau polico and this object was accomplished. The -Mau did not oppose the arrest, but protested, and submitted peacefully. There * ere no disturbances on the part of the Mau police. Three hundred Mau police are now under arrest, pending the hearing of nine charges to be laid. Mau members expressed a wish to meet the commodore of the warships and discuss their grievances, but declined to meet the Administrator. Mau chiefs exhorted their people to keep the peace. Marines sea wh€d native and European houses.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 288, 25 February 1928, Page 9
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