CONTROL OF SAMOA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 860, 2 January 1930, Page 9

CONTROL OF SAMOA

RUMOURS OF SECESSION TO AMERICA HONOLULU GOSSIP NEW YORK, Tuesday. The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” says he learns from the State Department that no offlcial report has been received by it of the recent clash between the natives and police in Western Samoa. Unofficial reports from Honolulu to the effect that the United States may be asked to consolidate British Samoan territory. with American Samoa are treated with the greatest reserve. Mr. H. Bingham, member of the Senate for Connecticut, who was chairman of the committee which drew up the Act for the government of Eastern Samoa by the United States, said today he doubted whether defines and authoritative information concerning Western Samoa could he obtained in Honolulu. It was not the habit of Britain to withdraw from any insular territory, and he did not expect her to do so in the case of Samoa. His committee had obtained no information tendin'* to show that New Zealand had any idea of withdrawing or that the League of Nations contemplated a change in the mandate over Western Samoa.