LATER FROM SAMOA. MALIETOA'S SURRENDER. HE WISHED TO AVOID BLOODSHED. GERMAN PROCEEDINGS. [Via Fiji]

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 223, 8 October 1887, Page 4

LATER FROM SAMOA. MALIETOA'S SURRENDER. HE WISHED TO AVOID BLOODSHED. GERMAN PROCEEDINGS. [Via Fiji]

The steamer Lubeck arrived afc Tonga from Samoa on September 22nd, and reports the German squadron still at Samoa numbering six vessels, two others having joined the original squadron. Malietoa surrendered himself to the German Commodore by request of English and American residents to save bloodshed, which would otherwise have ensued. The group is placed under a protectorate, with Tamasese as nominal Icing under the German Consul. The John Hunt was expected at Tonga daily from Samoa, and the German cutter Niua-tani-tani was to leave Tonga for Samoa on 24th September to inform the German Commodore that the Opal has effected a strategic retreat^to Fiji and that the coast is clear. Our Fiji correspondent writes : '* It is intended to deport Malietoa to German possessions in New Guinea. We in Fiji are too small and insignificant as a community to speak in the mattery but the general feeling is one of indignation, and a conviction that English prestige has been further lowered in the South Pacific by thus allowing the German Empire to practically annex this group. In German New Guinea Malietoa will learn what an insult he offered to the German Empire by passing as a protege of poor worn-out effete old Engi an d."