| Show I REBELLION IN SAMOA Among the dispatches printed this morning is a cablegram from Auckland New eZaland which convey the not altogether unexpected Intelligence that the long threatened revolution in Samoa Sa-moa has broken out The rival chieftains Malietoa Tanu and 1fataafa were clalmln the right to rule Th matter aLa submitted thief hie JusUte Chambers an Axiierfrari wlio d C1ptlIOn f s thlUst AVyi ofllasd rnijijth in jiffWJtjof Malietoai as the legal euccessoffo old kingwho died last August Next day Jan 1 5000 rebels were in arms They refused to recognize any ruler but Afataafa The royal Xorces were ambushed and routed and a reign of tei ror has been the only noticeable one on the islands since that day It is said that the followers of old Mataafa are playing havoc with foreign for-eign interests except those of Ger I many whose sympathies and Influence have been with the pretender that towns are destroyed and plantations wrecked bread trees cut down The whole trouble is believed to have I originated with German traders who have tried to create disturbances in order or-der to interest their government which has been trying fjor a quarter of a century cen-tury to get complete possession of the islands In the presentation of the claims of the two claimants Mataafas people entered en-tered a protest against the emplojment of Attorneys The chief justice refused to consider it and Mr Guerr an English Eng-lish lawyer appeared for Malietoa while the Germans produced an alleged attorney by the name of Von Bulow whose manner was so disrespectful to the court and so intentionally offensive that the chief justice reprimanded him Next day it was reported that Sau tale a religious fanatic and a prominent adherent of Mataafa had formed a plot to assassinatethechief justice A meeting meet-ing of the consuls and the representatives representa-tives of America and Great Britain was I immediately called at which some plain talk was the principal order of business busi-ness The German consul was accused or playing double with his colleagues I i under the treaty of Berlin and it was I strong intimated that he woujd 1 > 31 I held responsible for the conduct of the rebels in relation to other foreigners as proof of his complicity in the uprising upris-ing was at hand The result of the consultation was that American and English Hags were I hoisted above the houses of foreign residents res-idents and missions To this the German Ger-man cmsul demurred and demanded time to confer with the captain of a I German warship in the harbor The captain of the English warship Porpoise I Por-poise promptly cleared his ship for action tion and declared in favor of English speaking consuls native guards patrolled j I patrol-led the roads and the threatened at I I tack of Mataafas adherents was avoidI I etLThus I I Thus Great Britain is afforded an other opportunity to show her friendship friend-ship for the United States There is Ii no American warship at Apia Chief Justice Chambers is holding court onboard on-board a British manowar Consul Os borne is powerless to aid his people or I protect their interests in Samoa Every American there looks to the British I guns for defense and every British sailor and marine is ready to die for I American interests and lives as he would for those of his native land I I It would be strange If a war should I grow out of a factional fight among South Sea islanders But international I complications have already come from it and international complications constitute con-stitute the toddling steps of war I |
