The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-24

! made further saults upon the v;!lagei
since the bombardment of MatafagateIc
United States Consul Blackjack has tel
egropned all the facts respecting The
situation here, informing Secretary
Bayard that the American flag had
| been shot and torn down and burned
| by the Germans: that American citizens have
| been taken prisoners by the Germans aad
| states that the lives and property OF Amer
| lean citizens are in great danger.
BAYARD Is CosPLAcENT.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19-A copy of the dis
| patch from ApIa to-day, IN regard TO insults
| to Americans and the American flag at
Samoa by German soldiers, was shown TO Sec
| retary Bayard this evening. He said the
disturbance referred to was undoubtedy Y the
| same as thar briefly described by Consul
| Blackjack in his cable message to the de-
| partment on The 9th inst The consuPs ac-
count, he said, was not near 30 sensational
| as the one just received from San Francisco,
| but contained later information. however. a9
| it tod that the Americans who were ee zed
| had been released Immediately afterward.
ne secretary added that the department is
in constant communication with Samoa,
| through its agents, one of whom is stationed
at Auckland, and the latest information re-
ceived is to the effect that affairs are quiet
in that country, and that no serious troutle
| has occurred since the 9TH inst
THE LATEST.
SAN Francisco Jan. 20-The details of
| the affair at Samoa, which followed the ar
| tempt OF the Germans to land their forces
and the defeat Of their troops, described at
| length in the associated press correspondence
| from Apia telegraphed last night are SUP
plemented by other correspondents whose
| whose accounts are published here The
| Samoan Times, published at Apia, and which
| has been impartial in its accounts of the
events on the islands, gives the following
version of the light of Dec. 18: at Q
| o'clock on the morning of Tuesda? eighty
sailors from the Olga were landed aU Ma
| taafa, and forty more were sent in boats
along the coast, the eighty men marching On
| land to meet Ma:aafa At German farm
| el's plantation tie shore party were rem
forced by all the imported labor, said to ne
| New Britain men. SO that Ma aafa was be
| tween the 200 men who came down the dav
| before and the German sailors and foreign
| laboreTs Mataafa, knowing The danger of
| interference with the German soldiers, re
tired inland few hundred yards The Ger,
mans followed up and
| FIRED INTO MATAAFA's PEOPLE
killing young man, son of the chief. The
chief, getting terribly excited, was only pre-
| vented by his own people from firing into
the Germans, bUt while struggling against
| former efforts he himself was shot and fell
dead beside his son. Mataafa's people could
not stand this, and by common impulse.
| without orders, returned the fire. Their
first volIey killed six Germans and wounded
Others Several of Tamasese's men fed. ana
the laborers refused 10 fight it out, knowing
| that this meant certain death. The sailors
beat a hasty retFeab 20 their boats
| Mataafa's warriors followed them some dis-
tance. Mataafa lost about ten killed
and wounded, while the German less Is
stated at twenty killed. Among the dead is
Lieut. Seger. The United States steamer
Nipsic steamed to Sa!uafata on Tuesday on
hearing that the German war ships were go
ing to shell Mataafa's stronghold Capt
Mullan had communications with the Ger
man commanders, and entered his protest
against their reported prUiect. His protest
was not taken notice of, however for the
Olga threw shells into the spot where Ma
taafa was supposed to lie, but which he h d
vacated
| THE GERMANS TO BLAME.
The current testimony of the action Of the
Germans shows that the Germans brought
upon themselves the fate that over; ook
them, as it was not until two of Mataafa's
chiefs were killed that he ordered his men 20
fire on the Germans. The marines were on V
saved from exte mnation by the Dlompt ar
rival of their gunboats After their defeat
the Germans bombarded the village of Mua-
fagatele, although warned by American Con-
sui Blackjack that three houses in the place
belonged to an American citizen. Over these
houses an American flag f1oated, yet the flag
was torn down and parGialy burned by the
German sailors, who landed TO complete the
destruction of the place Correspondents
also give accounts of insult to an American
in the neutral district of Apia MaUaafa has
threatened that if the Germans again attack
his men he will destroy all the German prop
! nrtv on the islands