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Show OPPOSE RESTORATION OF SAMOA TO HUNS; OTTAWA, March S. New Zealand's! desire to retain former German Samoa I is indicated in a dispatch received here today from Wellington by way of London Lon-don through Reuter's agency. The dispatch quotes Premier Massey of! New Zealand as saying he planned to I attend the imperial war credit conference I m London "from a sense of duty" be- I cause his country was anxious as'to the i disposition of Samoa after the war "The Premier added that Samoa if i restored to Germany, would, as it was ! "the key to the south Pacific," become! the base of the German fleet and the I center of German operations, in tile Pa- I cific. I |