Show SAMOAS STRUGGLE ConsulGeneral Sewall Examined Ex-amined at Length KING OF HYGANZA DETHRONED The Arabs Prophesying the Extinct Ion of All Mission Stations Gotham Qoctip Otner News Items Samoan Matters WASHINGTON January 11Consul General Bewail of Samoa who has been home several months appeared before the Senate committee on foreign relations rela-tions General Sewall was examined in secret at great length He expresse the belief that the next mail will bring news of further and more terrible conflicts between the Germans and natives that the shedding of blood since he left Samoa Sa-moa had radically changed the situation situa-tion that if it were not intended to yield to Germany the entire control of the islands some decided action would have to be taken by the powers He presented to the committee copies of ths Samoan Times published at Apia containing accounts of the unprovoked unpro-voked and unexpected attacks by a German war ship upon the natives and of a meeting by consuls of other nations denouncing the act also the misleading mislead-ing and unfair statements by the German consul Sewall spoke of the studied systematic efforts of the Germans Ger-mans in sending out news from Berlin concerning Samoa to give the impres Mon that America was the aggressor in every cause of the trouble The German oppression he is further said to have represented is entirely responsible for any apparent division of the natives into hostile fractions He described Tamaseses followers as comparatively a handful who were threatened by the unpleasant dilemma that if they tailed to keep up the agitation against the native government they feared death at the hands of the German allies if they escaped the same fate awaited them at the hands of the natives who considered consid-ered them traitors to Samoa |