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Show QUIET AT SAMOA. Operations Suspended Pending Arrival ot Jolut Commission. Auckland, N. Z., May 11. Advices from Apia, Samoa, state that everything every-thing Is quiet on the island. Oper-tions Oper-tions have been suspended pending the arrival of the joint commissioners from San Francisco. After the cessation of hostilities a detachment of British soldiers visited the battlefield of Vailima, where they recovered an American machine gun that had been captured by the rebels. The rebel forts at Lottopa and Vailima were two miles long and of great strength, being reinforced by trenches and rifle pits. It was found that several sev-eral rebels had died In the trenches from the shock of bursting shells, but without having been wounded. |
