The record-union., 1894-04-27
SAMOAN ISLANDS.
CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING
THEIR FINAL DISPOSITION.
The Three Powers Not Yet Arrived al
Point to Convoke a Conference
on the Subject.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1ox.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
LONDON, April 26. - The Associated
Press is informed that correspondence
ain, the United States and Germany, in
regard to the disposition of the British
colony OF New Zealand to administer the
afiai of the Samoan Islands, is proceed
ing. 1T is added that the Governments
of the three Powers have not arrived at a
point which makes it possible to convoke
a conference on the subject.
GERMANY's POSITION.
BERLIN. April 26.-The National Zeit-
ung. probably rejecting the opinion of
the German Government. advises the
United States to leave the protectorate of
the Samoan Islands to Germany, under
treaty giving the United States a coaling
station. 1t adds: Under no consideration
could Germany withdraw from the posi-
ton she occupies in regard to Samoa.
NO FURTHER OUTBREAK.
MELBOURNE (Victoria), April 26-Ad-
vices from the Samoan Islands, dated
April 18th, say there has been no further
outbreak of the natives. The Aana ma
tives, however, still decline to give up
their arms in accordance with the agree
foreign Consuls. who have been acting as
mediators. They are still claiming TO APP
prehepd an attack. A representative of
the French Government at Samoa, on be-
half OF the French mission, has filed
claim for damages, claiming the French
schools and other property of the mission
were destroyed by Government troops
during the recent outbreak.
THE POWERS SEEKING A SOLUTION.
nR IN
looking to a British protectorate over the
Samoan Islands is no longer disguised.
To all appearances, secret understand
ing exists between Great Britain and
Germany, which includes also the United
States. \ person in high authority here,
questioned by reporter of the Associ
ated Press regarding the attitude of Eng
gland and Germany on the attempt being
made by New Zealand to assume admin
tration of the Samoan Islands, stated to-
day that the protectorate movement upon
the part of Great Britain was progressing
with the sanction of the United States
Government, which is represented as
caring nothing as TO who manages Samoa
as long as the rights of the United States
under the Berlin treaty are continued.
Color is given to this assertion by United
States Embassador Thomas E. Bayard,
who, in an interview to-day, said of Sir
John Thurston, Governor of the Fiji
Islands and the British Commissioner for
the Western Pacific: 1.-The presence and
counsels of men of such ability would, in
my opinion, offer happy solution to The
present difficulties
Mr.. Bayard added at the same time that
he had received no information on the
subject from his Government either in
regard to any present negotiations be-
tween the United States, Great Britain
and Germany, nor in reference to an i'm
pending conference of the three Powers
interested i'll the Samoan Islands.
A gentleman who has just returned
from Samoa, and who is the oldest Brit
ish resident there, as we'll as the owner of
the harbor of Pango-Pango, in an inter-
view this afternoon confirmed the report
that the British project of protectorate
over the Samoan Islands was impending,
He also asserted that the United States
would not object TO this action on the
part of Great Britain. The owner of the
the harbor of Pango- Pango also asserted
that the present situation OF affairs in
Samoa was impossible. There was no
government, he claimed, and some of the
most powerful chiefs of the islands had
been sent to work in chains on the high
roads by the American lawyer, who is
Chief Justice, referring 20 Chief Justice
Henry Ide.
1t is believed here that Pango- Pango
Will De S6lect9u as the laDulng place OF
the proposed Pacific cable, and as the
junction and branch lines to New Zea-
land. Some arrangement. it is said, is
therefore necessary by which the British
flag shall float over the spot where the
cable stands.
The Associated Press informant,
continuing, said that under no cir
cumstances will it be permitted that
the tripartiIe protectorate shall have con-
troll of the spot where the British mails
and cable land. The Berlin treaty, it is
said, never contemplated more than
ordinary commercial relations, and the
new state of things, it is added, will
naturally compel Great Britain, in the
interest of the colonies, to insist upon a
modification of the readjustment which
will not cause a lessening OF the United
treaty.