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Show FIGHTING INlsStol ity AMERICAN AND BRT.8HWAR-SHIPS BRT.8HWAR-SHIPS BOMBARD YlCUAQES'. Mataafa's Forces, Who Havo HaA the OMo-lal OMo-lal Support of the German govern, meut. Attack the United (Hates-1, ' and Ilrltlsh Coneutate. v- Auckland, N. '.., ywd$S. Latest fcports from Apia arV"to"the Affect that tho troubles grojvjng out of 'the election of a king of Samoa have taken a more serious turn and resulted In tho bombardment oi natlvo villages along tho shoro by tlio Unttcd States cruiser Philadelphia) Admiral Kautz commanding, and the British cruisers Porpolso and KoyallsJ. Tho bombardment bombard-ment has continued Intermittently for eight days. Several villages havo been burned, and there havt-'been a number num-ber of casualties among, the American and British sailors and marines? At yet It Is Impossible estimate, the number of natlvcs'lkH(.,ir'o3 Injured. At Mataafa and his chiefs,' constituting consti-tuting the provisional ) government, continued to defy the, reaty after the arrival of tho Philadelphia, Admiral Kautz summoned the various" consuls and tho senior naval officers to a con" ferenco on board the Philadelphia, when the whole situation wascarcful-ly wascarcful-ly canvassed. The upshot wot af resolution reso-lution to llsmlss the tofvlslo'naA government, gov-ernment, and AdmleaOCimtz Issued a proclamation calling cm 'Mataafa and his chiefs to return ,to their liomcs, Mataafa evacuated MullnuuJ the town he had mado his headquarters,,, and went into the Interior Herr Hose, the derman-'consul at Apia, Issued a proclamation supplementing supple-menting tho ono hohad Issued 'several weeks before, upholding the provisional provision-al government. As n result of this the Mataafans assembled In large forro and hammered In the fown. The British Brit-ish cruiser Royalist brought the Ma-lletoa Ma-lletoa prisoners from the Islands to which they had been transferred by tho provisional govorijuefiL. Tho Americans thenfdrtlfled" Hull-nuu, Hull-nuu, where 22,000 Malietoeans toot refuge. Tho rebels )he adhercntp 6f Mataafa barricaded -the roads within the municipality and seized the British houses. An ultlmatum'was sent to them, ordering them to', evacuate, and threatening them, IrrtaHe even'tof re-, re-, 4v-r3Lc-'J&i bml(bt&lmeri4..,tacamT menco nVl o'clock onthe afternoon oT March 15th. .iiua wu ignurcu, nuu me reuvii commenced an attack In tho direction of the United States and British consulates con-sulates about half an hour before the time fixed for tho bombardment. Tho Porpolso has shelled tho villages vil-lages east and west of Apia, and captured cap-tured many boats. Tho Americans and British are fighting fight-ing splendidly together, but there Is a bitter feeling against the Germans. Two men, a British and German subject, sub-ject, have been arrested as spies. |