FUTURE OF SAMOA.
A PUBLIC MEETING. Wellington, March 21. A public meeting was held at the Concert Chamber to express the views of the citizens as to the future of Samoa. A resolution was passed that, while recr.gmsing that the interests, desires and power of the British Empire as a whole, and its Allies, and not those of any rart of it, must ultimately determine the terms of peace, this meeting declare* its conviction that the restoration of Uio German colonies mi the Pacific would involve a standing menace, not only to the interests of Britain and her Dominions, hu(; also to the peaceful development of all other free communities in these seas; and. further, that while accepting, without reserve, the statement of ['resident Wilson that, in determining all auctions of sovereignty,- interest's of (he populations concerned" must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the Government whose title is to be determined, this meeting considers (hat the principle of self-determination cannot reasonably be applied to the native populations of the Pacific in their present cond'tion.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1918, Page 2
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