Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-30
BLOODSHED IN SAMOA
United States and British War
ships Bombard Mataafa's
Forces for a Week.
GERMAN CONSUL BACKS THE REBELS

! Several Casualties on the warships, the
Odds of Modern Instruments of Destruc-
| tion-German Cruiser Takes No Part in
the Observation-Disclosures Meets an
! Ultimatum with an Attack On the Brit
ish and American Forces
Washington, March 3O.-The state
department has received official adj
vices of the occurrences in Samoa.
The demonstration is regretted and
the opinion expressed that Admiral
Kautz acted on his best judgment and
information from the fact. The
edicts of the chief justice were ig-
nored. although sustained by repre-
sentatives of the British and American
governments, and made such a course
imperative under the anarchy that ex-
isted. There is no doubt that with
the facts now at hand, Admiral KautZ
will be sustained by the United States.
The latest dispatch from Kautz dated
Aukland, Wednesday, says: The
situation is much improved since my
telegram of the 18th via Sidney
Berlin, March 30.-A brief official
dispatch from Apia, Samoa. dated
March 2. says: Bonn bardment con-
tintes. In pursuance of military or
ders the whites evacuated many
houses. The chiefs of the Tanus party,
who were eXiled to the other islands,
have been brought back from Upolu.
Firearms and ammunition taken from
Tanus Jan. 2. have been returned"
Apia, Samoa Islands. March 2S. via
Auckland, e.. T.. March 30.-ICopyright,
1899. by Associated Press. 1.-The trou-
bles growing out of the election of
king Of Samoa have taken a more seri-
Gus turn. ard resulted in the lombard
fent of native Villages along the shore
by the United States cruiser Philadel-
phia, Admiral Kautz, commanding, and
the British cruisers Porpoise and Royal
ist. The bombardment continued inter
mittently for eight days. Several villages
have been burned. and there have been
a number of casualties among the
American and British sailors and ma
rines- AS yet it is impossible to esti-
mate the number OF natives killed or
injured
Kautz Calls a Conference.
AS Mataafa and his chiefs. constitut-
ing the provisional government. contin- |
ued to defy the treaty after the arrival |
of the Philadelphia, Admiral Kautz !
the various consuls and the !
senior naval officers to conference on |
board the Philadelphia. when the whole |
was carefully canvassed. The |
upshot was a resolution to dismiss the |
provisional government. and Admiral |
kautz issued a proclamation calling |
upon Mataafa and his chiefs to return |
To their homes. Mataafa evacuated |
Mulinuu. the town he had made his
headquarters. and went into the in
terror.
German Consul Upholds Mataafa-
Herr Rose. the German consul at Apia |
issued proclamation experimenting the
one he had issued several weeks before
upholding the provisional government
As result of this the Mataafans as
sembled in large force and hemmed in
the town. The British cruiser Royalist
brought the Malietoa prisoners from the
Stands to which they had been trans
'erred by the provisional government.
rhe Americans then fortified Mulinuu,
where 22.OG0 Malietoans took refuge The
-ebeIs-the adherepts of Mataafa-bar-