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Show COLLISION IN SAMOA. Ilrlllih Embassy at Washington Ilecelre. ORIclal Dispatch. Washington, April 1. Tho British embassy hero has received advices from Samoa in tho shape of a dispatch to the British Foreign office from Its representative there. It Is under date of March 20th and Is a brief report on the collision between tho two native fictions llicro and the bombardment by tho British and American vessels. The dispatch docs not go Into details, but Is confirmatory of former advices, ready received by the Associated Press. It says that the rebel faction advanced Into tho town and began occupation. it was men uciormtneu uy ttio commanders com-manders of tho British and American vessels to bombard the villages occupied. occu-pied. It announces that four British sailors were killed. This dispatch had been cabled to Embassador Pauncefote here. |