SAMOAN CONFERENCE
LI)Y ELKCTKIC TELEOKAI'H.—COPYBIGHT.I Bi:tu.is, May !>. The Samoan committee has ascertained that the land claims exceed the total area of the whole islands. Mr Sewell ani-1 Herr Brandais have both been attending the sitting. A White Book has been published containing a despatch from l)r. Knappe, formerly German Consul at Samoa, in which he condemns the unwarrantable hoisting of the American and Biitish flags over the houses and lauds belonging to natives. He alleges the natives pledged some lands claimed by Germans for arms and ammunition. .The holders. therefore, wore justified in hoisting their own national flag. Pr. Kuappe also states that Captain Hand, of the Biitish cruiser Royalist, declared he could not support the claims made for the possession of these hypothecated lands. An American firm had for years imported handkerchiefs bearing the national colours and portraits of the President and since the outbreak these had been hoisted recklessly over houses and huts in all directions. Considerable excitement has been c.iused in Berlin by the inopportune publicilicn of those despatches.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2624, 7 May 1889, Page 2
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172SAMOAN CONFERENCE Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2624, 7 May 1889, Page 2
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