The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-04-13
oYERpoVERED BY NUMBERS.
Three Officers Among Victims,
one un English Lieutenant,
and the Others Americans.
HEADS SEVERED FROM, BODIES.
Two British and two American
Sailors Also Killed by the
Mataafan Rebels.

WASHINGTON. April 12.-Both the
British and German embassies here to-
night received long kilograms from
their foreign office reporting on the de-
velopments in Samoa. That from Lon-
don was from the British consul at
Apla. and said that the casualties were
one British officer killed and two or
three American officers killed and five
American sailors wounded. with two
English sailors wounded. The purport
OF the German dispatch Is not known.
Itreached here about o'clock and took
un hour and n half to decipher.
The action OF Great Britain In order
ing two more warships to Samoa at
tracted considerable attention here, und
1t was stated that II the British ships
are so reinforced Germany would take
similar steps and augment her naval
representation in those waters to meet
any possible emergencies. So far, how
ever, no action looking to reinforcing
the United States naval forces there
has been taken.
AUCKLAND. N. H., April 12.-Dis-
patches received here from Apla. Sa-
moa. April I. says that party of lO5
Americans and British sailors were
forced to retreat to the beach. after
having been caught in ambush on q
German plantation that day. The ex-
petition WAS led by Lieutenant 4. H.
Freeman, OF the British third class
cruiser Tauranga. Lieutenant Freeman
and Lieutenant P. L. Lansdale, OF the
United States cruiser Philadelphia,
and Ensign J. K. Monaghan, of the
/ United States cruiser Philadelphia, were
left dead on the field.
Ensign Monaghan remained to assist
Lieutenant Lansdale, and was shot in
retiring.
Two British and two American sail
ors were aisp killed.
The natives engaged were some of
Mataata's warriors. They severed the
heads Of the. American. and British
officers killed. Priests OF the French
mission afterwards brought the heads
into Ap!a l
The manager OF the German planta-
t!on has been arrested and detained on
board the Tauranga on affldavits de-
clarlns that he was seen urging the
rebels TO fight
~! previous engagement twenty
and ~ y, Ain.ha,a > marliors were kliisu
Fm-onsa We.e ~ Gas udi.ies aiiioliS Tue
7, TpcaM Is a,., lo'ees. o,o
o,,,cLa5 S|''!Seeu ~ 'llsIt anout SoV warriors
fro, or1,ih ais -A'sio-tA'iieFicah purity
N'o''' "ii'uush'
Have lhcm n Last Chance.
Further advices from Apla. Samoa.
4 saw thar n, tho orr,,.,I :, ~. p,.,,,.,,
4 o,,,;... ~, ''' ~ a. VI ..ie D'i.ish
S'u'se' iauFaiea' at Apia, the British
andAmerlcan consuls issued u proclaim
alton TO riva M,t,,T, ,ost oho,,o
and thot ,ho E.onaS
thnir nc. ,an .le r'ehch priests aiso useu
md m" .Iee, rahaio Dut aii EFFORTS laiiea'
,Ions DE pu coi'tinueo tnelr dePreda-
brIJ~e. ,nn t'peaty @ WIS DESTROYED ana
Nareb 90 a,tu ~ ioaus were oarricaded. On
r,,I,i wi i'.e ,,a.piL e.,ey WIS slshteu at Ma
po,indor ,rar" ,,r.I a.t Suie % nhu q u, seven
ot.ncrnd ~ ~ useu. ne Irlendiies nlso
rrtroa, ,sn .ne % u..einy CURING tne latter's
nv n.o,,,i Inu aI'elai FeDels Were Killed
head ,j,ro,ui tnI irletldiies carried one
S,unr, "ousm 90 sa np,u, wnich mace Captaln
kim anJ .L tuiious t.,at ne went 10 the
found Ia tattna ,,tGa.eeu haat TO r snoot any man
suad "H'ms n.a,t nsnus; Inc kihg lhen IS
prac,Iro 'ioe'"'"a'ios' ioroiddihe the
'rSs'Ie. ~
Eautz. asking 81 Two yra,t ~ r;hr,..1on tlu y, -
nations approved OF this inhuman and
CbrIn.Is CCtb,%arous practice against the laws Of
preme court D"o ''e uecfee oi .le su-
The admiral replied. npree,up With
the consul as to the inhumanItv. of tho
Practice, and pointed out that Han Tho
German consul upheld the decrne NJ tho
Supreme court Of January trtJEt,GS
WOULD HAVE BEEN No RIo0n-
SHED: thnt Tho c,s,or, AoOp- ~,
an old Samoan ono hmt "as wns
first made known to tho vnrI5
ten years ago. when the ihonds or bnn-
est German soldiers were cuf or Nv ~ a
barbarous chief Mataofo whorn the ,
representative OF the great Chri.,ian
nation of Gcrmnnv ia nov sunnortIn,1 :.
Expeditions in armed cuttora hoiar. LIS
Ing to the Tauranpn and Pornoj.a nso
doing considers HE erecuiion nn,,nn. az
Mataafa's strongho1ds along ,ba cann, n,nSt
The British force are heinz ,ss,.toT , S,.
one hundred Samonns hont Sor,,: uy
Sx OF Matanfa's bonts and sevcrai vi,-
lagos have been DESTROYED In tbnn,
flying columns nre hnJn1 cont LII, LII,
along the roads and thronpb tho & busi,