Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-06
SERIOUS TURN of AFFAIRS.
village Bombarded by Americ,r
and British Warships.

Apla, Samoan Islands, March ~
via Auckland, y. H., March 3l.-Tbe
trouble growing out Of the election
ia kiEg OF Samoa have taken n more
serious turn and resulted i'm the bonn
Dardmen OF native villages along the
shore by the United States cruiser
Philadelphia, Admiral Kautz. COM
manding, and the British cruisers
Porpoise and Royalist. The lombard
ment has continued Internationally for
eight days. Several villages have
been burned and there have been a
number of casualties among the Amer
lean and British sailors and marines.
AS yet i Is impossible to estimate
the numbe of natives killed or in
jured.
As Mataafa and his chiefs. consti-
tpSng the provisional government,
~'.i>tlnued to defy the treaty after the
si'lVal OF he Philadelphia, Admiral
Aaatz summoned the various ~consuls
n the senior naval officers to a con
ference on board the Philadelphia,
When the whole situation. was careful
~ canVassed. The upshot was a reso.
tuition TO dismiss the provisional gov
eminent and Admiral Kautz issued a
proclamation calling upon Mataafa
II his chiefs TO return to their homes.
Mataafa evacuated Mulihum, the
town he had made his Headquarters.
n went into the interior. Herr Rose,
the German consul at Apia
Issued n Proclamation
experimenting the one he had issued
several weeks before. unfolding the
provisional government. AS a result
of this 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 then fortified Mulinuu.
where 1000 Malietoans took refuge.
The rebels-she adherents of Mataafa
-barricaded the roads within the
municipality and seized the British
houses. An ultimatum was sem to
them ordering them TO eyacuate. and
threatening them, in the event Of re-
fusal, with bombardment. TO com
mence at l o'clock on the afternoon OF
March L. This was ignored. and the
rebels commenced an attack in the
direction of the United States and
British ~consulates about half an hour
before the time fixed for the bom-
bardment. The Philadelphia, Porpoise
I and Royalist opened fire upon the dis
tant villages. There was great diff
Guilty in locating the enemy owing to
the dense forest, but several shore
villages We're o o in flames. A de-
fective shell from the Philadelphia ex-
ploded near the American consulate
= and fhA N rinnu outside ~ .L.
Narrowly Escaped.
A fragment struck the leg of Private
Ridge, SCATTERING it so badly as to
necessitate amputation. Another frag-
ment traversed the German consulate,
smashing the crockery. The Ger
nan then went on beard the German
cruiser Fake. During the night the
rebels made a hot attack on the town,
killing three British sailors. A British
marine was shot in the leg by a sentry
OF his W party, another was hot in
the foot and IN American sentry was
killed at his post. The bo~mbardment
continuing, the inhabitants of the
town took refuge on board the Royal
list, greatly crowding the vessel. Many
! people are leaving Samoa, the captain
of the Royalist urging them TO go 81
as not to interfere with the military
operations. The Porpoise has shelled
the villages east and west of Apia and
captured many boats. The Americans
and British are fighting ~splendidly to-
gether, but there is a bitter feeling
against the Germans. Two men, a
British and a German subject, have
been arrested as spies. The lombard
ment of the jungle was for a time
! very hot.