Samoan War News. GERMAN SUPERVISION OVER BRITISH SHIPS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 357, 6 April 1889, Page 3

Samoan War News. GERMAN SUPERVISION OVER BRITISH SHIPS.

Apia, Samoa, March 20. Since the departure ot the Lubeck everything has been qui6b. No further attacks .have been made., on the Samoans, who in their, -turn have remained perfectly quiescent,' awaiting the arrival of Admiral Kimberley in the U.S. warship Trenton, which VeacbecJ here, on Monday, the 11th, after a protracted passage of fifty-seven days from Panama. The Tamasese -Government has entirely abandoned all attempts to maintain order of any description, either amongst Samoans or foreigners, <and it it were not for Mataafa 'having' pl'dced a large force of police in the town, t;he*e .would no doubt be a good deal of. disorder. - Captain Kane, of H.M.s. Calliope, hap.- with dyawrKshis guard of marines from the shores, on supposition, I presume, that no danger is to be apprehended from the Samoans.. Neither, is there, unless some overt act is comaiittecl by the Germans. Captain Kane and the British Consul have been- making sWenuous u effoVts to promote a good feeling between the 'Germans and Britishers here, but their efforts have been entirely unavailing. -i , Dr. Knappe,the German Consul here, who was interviewed by the representative of the Associated Americen Pres>s, stated that four German warships were on the way here, and that Germany' intended to prosecute the war against Mataafa to the bitter end. There is /one thing; H however — the Germans, although never interfering in any way with Mataaia's party, who patrol the town in hundreds, haye 1 never withdrawn the proclainatiqnywhich they issued. They still continue the. vexatious practice of boarding and searching British ships. Both the Maile and /Richmond (from Sew Zealand), which arrived here lately, having been subjected to that practicejalthoug'h" only formal, it has a very strange appearanc^', in view of the fact that seyeral American. vessels have arrived since the declaration of war, not one of .which has been either searched or boarded by the German warships. March 19. The Calliope returned to 'Apia to-day, to the great delight of all the inhabitants, who feared that she had been lost in the hurricane whioh had wrecked all the other vessels. She leaves for Sydney on Thursday, 20th. 1 The fact of many more mouths to fill in the persons of the shipwrecked men-of-war crews, who must of necessity remain here for at least two or three months, added to the total -, destruction of all native food, threatens to' create a famine here shortly It is : to^tJe<-hop*e'd a pestilence does nob bVeak'bim .r. Many 'of the sailors are hurt by accidents during the wreck, and down with tropical complaints. The British residents are rather surprised that l 'the captain of the Calliopo should have determined *to leave at the present juncture. '- Some idea of the force of the gale and sea may be gathered fiom the fact that the U.S. Vandalia at ordinary times, with four boilers, and 401b. pressure could steam 9 knots. On the day of the storm she had seven boilers going, and a pressure of 701b., but could not face it.