Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-05-03
(By Telegraph to vircinian-Pi,ot,

ICY Telegraph to Virginian- Pilot.) ~
Wellington, n. T., May 2.-Advices {
from Samoa indicate that instructions
received from the powers to cease hos
tilities makes the situation in the is
land very serious. as the rebels hold
the main food supplies and are again
near the municipality OF Apia The cor
respondent of Reuters News Agency
thinks 1t is evident that the home au-
thorties have misunderstood the situa-
ton in Samoa. The Germans and
rebels are already jubilant and claim a
victory over the British and American
forces. The correspondent says that
unless the rebels are made 10 submit
the difficulties will remain unsolved
The white people in the outskirts of
the city are ut the mercy of the rebels
AMERICAN CONSUL ROBBED.
The American vice consurs store at
talifa was looted last week, while a
German store adjoining it WAS left un-
touched. British and American resi-
dents all strongly condemn the action
Oh the powers III ordering u cessation
OF hostilities ut this stage.
TWO days after the last battle at Val
una Lieutenant Il. a. Gaunt of the
british cruiser PorDoise, marched his
brigade into Naiima. unopposed. and
was followed by a company of British
piue Jackets under Captain Sturdee and
\ Lieutenant Cave.
| WANTED LIEUT.. GAUNT'S HEAD.
inspection of the battlefield shows
that Inc defences erected by the rebels
near the home OF the late Robert Louis
stevenson were strong aud we'll plan
ned The loss sustained by the rebels.
| 1t is evident was much greater than
| was at first supposed. The main sec
| ton OF MataafaS followers. who were
| engaged in the battle OF Vailima re
| treated westward TO Lulumoenga where
| they lay in wait for frendies Orders
| hau been given them to capture Lieu
| tenant Gaunt's head. The rebels We're
also anxious to secure the superior
weapons with which his brigade is arm
| ed
1t is rumored that thirteen boats. NIL
! ed with armed rebels, are approaching
from the east The town appears to be
| safe.
MCKINLEY SCORED.
London. May 2.-Robert Louis Ste
| vcnson's widow has written a letter to
| The Westminster Gazette from Funchal.
| Madeira, on the bombarGment OF Sa-
moan villages by the English and
| American warshps. Mrs Stevenson
| says:
president Mckinley allowed no fir
| ing on Cuban towns unless they gave
active cause OF ofrense. and Commodore
| Watson was ordered not to attack UNI
defended Spanish cities Does the
President keep his humanity for civil
| lied countries alone?"
Mrs Stevenson declared that the Sa-
moan villages are inhabited in time
of war by non-combatants. who have
10 choose between the shells OF the
warships and taking to the BUSH"
Under such conditions. she says, deli
cate women can hardly exist while
| children die like flies.
Mrs Stevenson's letter concludes az
follows:
AND CHAMBERS LIKEWISE.
"Chief Justice Chambers has been
represented as saying in a letter to
his brother:
81 never was happier He must be
nation II he never pictured to himself
the scenes being enacted in thoss
bombarded villages: the exodus ot
panic stricken people rushing hither
and thither, shells bursting every
where, the cries OF bed-ridden and
helpless wounded people burning alive
III their blazing houses, women in the
pangs of childbirth, mangled children
( crawling on the sands. the sea before
them and the bush behind And wa
read that the woods also were shelled.
! VINO is to be held accountable for
these deeds, that disgrace both Eng
land and American"
PRESIDENT SUPPORTS KAUTZ.
Washington. May 2.-It Is denied offl-
ciaily here that any undue restraint
mas been imposed upon Admiral Kautz
when should encourage the insurgents