Show England Wont Annex tile Samoa Islands LONDON May IOEarl Derby Colonial Colon-ial Secretary replying to a request from the Government of New Zealand to the English Government to annex the Samoa Islands on the ground that the native chiefs wished a union with England sent a dispatch on January 5th announcing that the German Government had given ample assurances that it would respect the independence of Samoa If therefore there-fore he concluded New Zealand should unfortunately send a Colonial Secretary Sec-retary to Samoa Germany would be justified jus-tified in annexing the Islands The Premier of New Zealand then suggested as an alternative a treaty between England Eng-land Germany and America to respect no treaty of the Islands |