ORDERED FROM APIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 83, 2 September 1914, Page 2

ORDERED FROM APIA.

ISLAND SKU'PIiR'S SURPRISE. One of tfie best known of the Island 'traders, Captain E. F. Allen, of Apia, bad an intoesiting story to 'tell on- Ihiis arrival in. Sydney by the Ventura last ■week.

"X was chased ouit of Gorman. Samoa," he said. "1 was returning from the Ellice Islands in oik company's steamer- the Dawn, and not having lleairdj aibout tllie war I steeled Mr Apia, Which is my headquarters in tte islands. 1 had just cleared the harbor, wfluat, to miy siuir.pnise, an armed hoait wot mfl, and I wiae informed) by the officials aboard of the wair. Tlhey told me 'that the Governor (Br Schultz) was sorry to miaice trouble for me, but that I cjivulld unit lanuli, mrf hold any oominvunidation wiith the town, and that if I -did not steam away tlhere and then I imlst db so Before dark, or take the oonsjeqluiemcea Accoaxlingly, I ckiurod out for Pago Pago, where the Dawn ia now laid up. Two miotoi- boats followed me along the coast till I got out of Geimyan waters. Tfaere wia® no wairsffiip at the tjiraie in Apia tarbor. Apia is wot foirtitiedj, but .rifles have been distaibiuited among all Ithe Germ-m j nc-sidents, and tiliey had 1 an armed j gulaird l aHoiund the wireHfe's station and | the Government offices. I "Thie natives are in a state of .mtj rest, and it is my belief that if ttare i,=. any fighting down' thiere the Samicnns j wlill -pitch into tJhe tieirmfuis. They i have never cared -for German aiule. Tlie last Governor, Dr Solf, now German Minister for the Colonies. and the present 'Governor, have treatedi -the natives ■witHi ldndwessy Ibuit trouble Jiak -been caiußffidl by new wfficiala, who tf.o- not understand. how to deal wftt'h natives like the Santoons. Owe law tliiit has given rise t» infJClh feeling on tlje part of 'tilie Kvmoans asi -we'll as other people is -that which makes mairirtage between German subjects and Samoans or halfcastes* illegal. A junnlbec of Germans wllio have been in the group for som|R yeairft aire married to natiivcs -or halfpastes, and Dims tlnere are two factions among the Germans themselves j while the natives are naturally very resentful.

"Oomirnuiucfttiion between. Pago Pago and Apia is out off, and the postal officials in Apia have held up all correspondence. The Germans are taking every possible precaution, against information "leaking out through native sowrtees."