“Terrible Mistake”
SENDING WARSHIPS TO SAMOA : mmGREAT DISCONTENT (United P. A.—By Telegraph — Copyright.). Reed. 9.5 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. Mr. C. Buchanan, an insurance assessor, who has returned from a visit to Samoa, trenchantly criticised New Zealand’s Samoan policy. He said New Zealand made a terrible mistake when she sent warships to Samoa. The natives were following a peaceful picketing policy which would be tolerated in any country In the world except Italy. New Zealanders from the warships landed in full fighting equipment, and were met on the beach by 400 aged men and women, who neither offered, nor intended to offer, any resistance. Samoa was quiet now, but was still full of discontent. Mr. Buchanan spoke to Tamasese, who said the natives would refuse to cut any copra if the traders became tax-collectors under the scheme proposed by Sir George Richardson. The Samoans were eagerly waiting the arrival of the new Administrator, Colonel S. S. Allen.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 328, 13 April 1928, Page 11
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