Show SHOT AT APIA details of fight firlit 0 in ill wi i Amor americans icam ani and endlish J I 1 ID wen I 1 IRAN RAN INTO AN AMBUSH twelve officers and men massacred Plas sacred 1 SEVEN MEN WERE INJURED I 1 landing party was made up of sixty american sailors an and d marines six ty two english sailors a and ad about 1 20 N natives a uv T their 1 r 0 object c t t to 0 break eem ahe break U up p a an n A assemblage 55 b g e of rebels e b e as aho vho beets been committing dedred depredations ahad in vicinity of hailele misled by information given by a germust german planter hufnagal by name they marched into a trap and were we rat slaughtered ensign monaghan Mon agbon made heroic hereto fight to save the life of langsdale kautz issues a proclamation stan franciaco Franc Fran two cinco may fay S the regular i ITC of the associated press 1 l einar t 1 frent roni apia abia samoa under date dale of april k arit ath given a detailed account of tho the fight in libich lansdale aal I 1 id en 59 I 1 1 I monaghan 1 tona ghali hAU of the live american n navy ivy and freemen I of the british navy lost their lives hacsi in the fight there more ere killed on the mataafa side forty threca and airty nere elfr wounded A it complot fl list oc the N bile dead aej aou ous M 20 in is bohon 3 ot siTt M CAN I 1 DEAD EAD acut lansdale J it 11 monaghan T butler norman 11 edsell ril vaLea chontas Thoi ibis I 1 hollaway iolla Holl tway ay private jelin 11 iada of the manno corps WOUNDED J JI IT wellington shot phot in elbow fitt man III andjus andi MS right leg IF 3 J C lohn john test loll shoulder J W abid l left hip bill maillho mai ino john bd MC maurty arly right IN mat DEAD first 13 11 A freeman seaman A it thornberry ny admond halloran ordinary seaman montague rodgers ordinary john long lone loading john prout seaman WOUNDED marino marino marin bobcat hunt the last l bat named vas mas knocked iet 4 during the ambush tho the natives thought him dead and cut off hla big right per car tho the shock blought him to and ad lie h escaped DETAILS OF engagement on april a landing party made up of sixty american sailors and marine Ic and sixty two anglish sailors siU lors and about 12 na calives kinli proceeded ceded to vaalele to lo break ur up an assemblage ot of III ho had been committing depredations in the ine vb vicinity anity tho the party was under command of angel freeman first office of athi Taur antra and ath jilin him were ll 11 ats cave of t alie te lr and d hickman of the RoYall st tho the Arne americana ricans were under command comina ml of mho had biad bilth him lasian Mona managhin ghin and perkins of tho the marine corps dr lungo of the philadelphia also accompanied tho the expedition expectation MISLED BY A GERMAN when tho the party had reached tin the german plantation cave naked asked capt hufnagel 1 the german manager if ea ahr pre vero more any samoans in ino the manager said that alone non hall had been aven tharas that day at that ery cry moment and within a few hundred yards of f the expedition was a larato hody body of 0 aebela f lk A k 1 ad advised ased that a rein return m home liti he be made n a lo 10 by way nay of tile the in main ain road t through tho the plantation na as everything nas quite fe and no rebels had been uti ve hace a about three other 1 M erem ere M th fill antl and heard hard this conversation conversa Uon no one gave any morning of danger ILAN HAN INTO AMBUSH the march to the beach wai commenced and no sooner had bad the men kot got out of the lh Idan tation phenil P ullen at a beskid lit tile the road iw yards Y ard iway away barge numbers of oc rebels mere r h an A cult colt automatic sun gun of N which III I 1 h the natives have great dread 1 u I 1 im in Inedia tely brought fora forward ard it refused t tu Q act c L the rebels gut ei ore off clear and it n halt fiat I 1 m a aa a maile made to fix the aau run ahls took half tan hour and langdal a few trial shots the grun all right and lite march was resumed aith elie friendly natives tn ili the lad allayed by the of hufnagel it aas decided th cadd to return by the h main road the open space chote al tho ie germanis Geri Ger nAns maxis had been masi sacred by NIR ma ten years at airo oiro 0 1 as aa passed and nd the troops in arched down lite hie road to ft A golly tile the idos allies or I 1 alth till buffalo grase tun TO WORK on oil tile ihu tot top of the just artter the tha last laft of the troops had begun to march through ohp gully cully tile tho rebels fired acil upon the line m aus us about too aard ard I 1 tn in length 1 ill I ho rebels nere here aing in t the fie long gra atao while some ome i ere in ila the he tope top A or of cocoanut coco anul anut arc breeb the colts colln pun gun again refused to act and while ivil lansdale bast tryl arylne sig to fix I 1 it I 1 he wounded in the anee A at t I 1 the be of the hc fight lk ut freeman Fr comara waa sami shot through the chest and airl fell ft n dead tile the friendly natives retreated n at al hp h fl nm am and the whole forat mas thrown into confusion to retreat rr was anti and the cauto anath gun vw accordingly aban cloned after the ammunition had been and the breech taken avay benle a ing ll it still more us elesiN ALT FORCES i SUII surrounded ROUNDED the allied forces were more surrounded on 01 three a 1 de through tile the scrub said araxa the h e sailors retired lansdale being QA assisted sIted by hla big men th tho tiring of the ahe belvels na aas severe lAin bandali gdale who alas aa being assisted by insign monaghan and two men seeing that thai he could not it 1 fal I 1 aitay urged ili them 1 to jact leaie ili him an to his f fate a te one american av ballor or via A hief hot end n fand nd tho other scot F h he could not nave have his officer betl at atad and n I 1 escaped IANS fight ron FOR larf monaghan refused to RO go all and d stayed by his hi fal low off cor c or next exl domink their head hea headrest headiest diest I 1 cas bodies m were ere found on tile the battlefield batile neld monaghan at revolver empty as aa was waa also Lans dales between tm celt them lay jay the tha dead bodies of three rebels monaghan before tho the last man left him shot tile chief alono alone dead as 09 ho he was advancing on langdale lan idalo from 2 ukle little relate liow how lo nachan glood to over lansdale La until that officer wis was shot dead and then tiled it to esc eacono but waa to do so PO when tile tho main mail party reached the beach it wea found that four men were 1 sing bado a th he olivem jhc thc they N were er eta edsell anti and butler of the plaited philadelphia ill h ia and 11 long lone and trout prout of ill ahe 13 biltl ship OFFICERS nef dri dr lung ullo had ad been com conspicuous ovis for lila ills coolness and blavert under air took command of 0 the american forces force abid an J on the elie approach of oc reinforcements the reboh retired several of oc tile the lalle toa natives wt loit their lives lived tile decapitated bodies of the three officers were recovered next hext me domms rung on the field eld and on easter sun sunday day they were hurled burled with the heads which had been recovered by a a frinch french driml all tile thy leading american and dritch officials anti and real denla dent were ere present the L Gar 0 maji were conspicuous by their absence thi the only ono one at lending attending being P pastor t stor hargra Karp raf f A who he lind land anoa knoten A lans lana dalo dale in tit united states the german warship falke had her fluff fing at batir aa I 1 and her officers bent beat ashore to tho wrea wreaths tills eti tIned with the Geiman tie national colborg GERMAN UNDER AR ARREST capt huflage Huf nage tile the german A manager has beer been arrested for c complicity amp I 1 city lit jn tile light of oc atoll it lie ile it held 0 on n board the iho german ship falke under d er pledge from her commander to return E urn film ill to capt on tie demand in and its have been made by men ell cn in the fight that a N date maji was waa with the brebt rebels 19 directing direct lne talent throng throughout lio u t t the h e ei i g e m L I 1 ufah axi S t the h e d e sc r tati L 0 C t this r man cx c x antl acely yi deserters 4 front from side way that on oil EL previous occasion hufnal kel 1 had a narrow Offa nive front from being shot hot zol encouraging the iho natives I 1 PRUSSIAN LS iSIAN OFFICER DIPOnT ED von ton buelow it A prussian cavalry officer r hag been en deported to sydney by tile the german connive phil si lle commander me fie was vas seen 0 on A april hi b in command of it a body of COO men latest on the auy uy to reinforce aia ta brafa A lare colv of friendly natives has haa been armed cand and put under command of nf gaunt of the british anvy jfe has been drill inic them incessantly and liia them inin a t line state of 0 I 1 dw d W they Prout ibe to lu anat alake goo d fighters VAI LINtA RUINED nUIN JD on oil april vallonia Val linia the home of robert louis stevenson was wn shelled bv 1110 porpoise as ad it had been beell occupied by rebels s ho he were in ill ing on the iho allied forrey comes th the hauae let Is utterly ruined I 1 ironi r orn that time lime to now the rebel 1 liao a a kept away from apia abia although I 1 they hey air within an hours march of 0 I 1 ton A A there Is a no sign of surrender Pe en flanco anco ant and boath Is the rebel cry on oil march admiral knutz kaltz lit in or d dr or to plo ghe ohp 2 Mata afan A 0 chance to submit AIt without hout more bloodshed issued th tho e follow I 1 nr proclamation KAUTS proclamation it la Is hereby divide anle known to all samoan alit t melcio a ims has keen been in stall stal cil lell us king kin of sin on oil bv lite iho cont coni blued naval forces of great croat britain and am america on oil march ills saig n if mas m by the th of shone now all bemoans of the o M toafa lie 0 tion are 1 informed nOre led thai allot IC ledue by sen diniz at ai once from each di their lawful lanful aln ilaff al lill mho upholds hit has position bv tho the kreit great treaty y id and alv cwon of the fw chief chic t ui ilir I 1 r it od they will mill be allonen to lu return in their domes a and their simial avocation alth ool anc t molestation the ilio very ive mc macaure a areg aure mill he bo taken at once as raint ull all r PIA nho he do not noi comply with mull thin proclamation yo no answer wan sent to thin slab although ough I 1 the he rebels conNI considered dered it at al a full meeting it vaa mam stated that they wele at lintt first to obey but germun german influence them to hang out to for news from germany which mas as same mire to arrive tw by the wt next mail instead of obeying the rebels shrew chrt w up barricades barrt CAdes and pt pie pared for active u nar or |