Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-30
BY the British and American
WarshipS.
GERMANY WAS NEUTRAL
Several OF Our People Were Killed.
The War Vessels Engaged
in the Firing.

Apld. samoan Islands,, NlarCn 10, Via
Auckland, N. H., March 2~9.-Copyright
by the Associated Press, 1S99.-The
troubles growing out of the election of
a king of Samoa have taken d more
serious urn and resulted in the bonn
bardment of native villages along the
shore by the United States cruiser
Philadelphia, Admiral Kautz command
ing. and the British cruisers Porpoise
/ and Royalist. The bombardment has
continued intermittentiy for eight days.
Several villages have been burned and
there have been a number of casualties
among the American and British sail
ors and marines. AS yet it is impossi-
BILE to estimate the number of natives
killed CT injured. AS Mataafa and his
! chiefs, constituting the provisional gov
! eminent, continued to defy the treaty
after the arrival of the Philadelphia,
Admiral Kautz summoned the various
consuls and the senior naval officers to
a conference on board the Philadelphia,
when the whole question was carefully
canvassed. The uDshot was a resolu-
ton to dismiss the provisional govern
ment and Admira kautz issued a
proclamation calling on Mataafa and
his chiefs to return to their homes.
Mataafa evacuated Mulinuu, the town
he a made his headquarters, and went
into the interior. Herr Rose, the Ger
man consul at Apia. issued a proclama-
ton supplementing the one he had issued
several weeks before, unfolding the pro-
visional government. AS a result or TINS
the Mataafans assembled in large force
and hemmed in the town. The British
cruiser Royalist brought the Malietoa
prisoners from the island to which they
had been transferred by the provisional
government. The Americans h forti-
fled Mulinuu, where 1000 Malletoans
took refuge.
The rebels-the adherents of Mataafa
-barricaded the roads Within the mu-
nicipality and seized the British houses.
An ultimatum was sent to them, order
ing them to evacuate and threatening
them, in the event of refusal, with a
Commandment. to commence at l O'Clock
on the afternoon of March Is. This was
ignored and the rebels commenced an
attack in the direction of the United
States and British consulates about hall
an hour before the time fixed for the
bom~bardment. The Philadelphia, POr-
poise and Royalist opened fire upon the
distant villages.
There was great difficulty in locating
the enemy owing to the dense flames
Several villages were soon in flames
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near the American consulate and the
marines outside narrowly escaped. A
fragment struck the leg of Private
Ridge, shatterinS it so badly as tt
necesSitate an amputatlOn. Another
fragment traversed to the German con
sulate, smashing the crockery. The
Germans then went on board the Ger
man cruiser Fake. During the nigh
the rebels made a hot attack on tn
town, killing three British sailors. 4
British marine was shot in the leg b,
} a sentry of his own party, another wa
she in the foot and an American sen
try was killed at his post. The bonn
bardment continuing, the inhabitant
of the town too refuge on board tn
Royalist, greatly crowding the vessel.
Many people are leaving Samoa, tn
captain of the Royalist urging them t
go, so as not to interfere with the mill
tary operations.
The Porpoisc has shelled the village
east and west of Apia and capture
many boats The Americans and Brit
ish are fighting splendidly together, bu
there is a bitter feeling against tn
Germans.
I Two men, a British and a Germa
subject, have been arrested as spie'
The bombardment of the jungle wa
for a time very hot.
The British cruiser Taruanga, whic
it is said was intending to annex tn
Tongua islands (~section of the Friendl
islands in the Pacific was intercepte
: at Suva, capital of the Fiji islands, b
order of the home government.