SAMOAN DIFFICULTY.
[i;y elkutric telegraph.—ooptiuoht.] 13eiu.in, May 11. Tiik Allgemeine Zcitung suggests that America should abandon Pago Pago Harbour, and convert Suwarrow Island, on which tho British flag was recently hoisted, into a coaling station. London, May 12, At a sitting of the Samoan Conference yesterday the report of the committee was approved. Mr Kasson, American Minister at Berlin, and one of the delegates, in a speech on the fight which took place between German sailors and Samoans under Mataaf.i, exonerated the latter from any blame, and refused to agree to the demand of Germany for redress from Mataafa.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2627, 14 May 1889, Page 2
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99SAMOAN DIFFICULTY. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2627, 14 May 1889, Page 2
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