DISCONTENTED CHIEFS.
TROUBLE THREATENED IN GERMAN SAMOA.
By Telegraph—-Press Association AUCKLAND, December 21.
Trouble is threatened in GermanSamoa through the discontent of certain chiefs, owing to their loss of power and dignity by the dispersion of the Samoai) Taipule, or Parliament, and the appointment of inspectors to enforce the planting laws. No violence is anticipated, but Governor Solf will prtibably have much difficulty in dealing with passive resisters.
The malcontsnts state that under the three-power protectorate, if one Power did ill by the natives, the latter could complain and get a hearing or redress from the other Powers. Germany became their protector, and nothing more. Though the Samoan Parliament had dispersed, it would reassemble. The y add: —"We want to hoist again the Samoan flag. We will perhaps appeal to our tormer protectors to decide if we are not justified."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3076, 22 December 1908, Page 5
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140DISCONTENTED CHIEFS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3076, 22 December 1908, Page 5
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