Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 80, 6 April 1894 Edition 02 — MORE CIVILIZATION! THE SAMOANS ENGAGE IN FEUDAL WAR. [ARTICLE]

MORE CIVILIZATION! THE SAMOANS ENGAGE IN FEUDAL WAR.

MODERN ARMS AND AMUNI7I0N USED—BEHEADING THE FATE OF VICTIMS. Underdateof Marcb 24th the Samoan Herald gives an acconut of the war in progress iu Samoa, as fullows: At the tirne of onr going to l3ress witli oar last issue cousdable excitement prev,»iled owmg to tbe rumors of tlie attack wliieh was to be made by the peop!e of Atua. The excitemeat calmed down somewhat on Satard iv whea the mcssenger returned from At'ui, shiti g th.it a visit {r >m tlie Cousu s woukl be agreeuble to. On Sunday (March 18) a womau eame from At»ia, who stated that tbe people of Atua h;»d tlieir ausw»r to the ConsaIs prepared. i unel thiuk th»t it was to the eflect tli;.t they intend to eome to Apia, I and if the Cousnls were des rous ) l tbat fig!it5ng shoald not take plaee within tbe Munieipal bonn»1 »ry they must exert their inllnenee aud cause Maliehm aud liis followei-s to retire, aud take up a nositii>n elsewhere, On the same day tbe Rev. Whitmeo, who w»s at Leulumoega, saw t(»e ciiiefs of the rebel party, who informed liim that tbey were perfectly willing to submit tliemselves to the Kmg and Consuls. Mr. iv'liitinee left for Apia at 2 ! ..’eloek on Monday moruing to impart this information to the nuthor:ties, und prevent. if p<>s- i | sible any fnrther sheddiug of blood. -At the tuue he left, the Government party were moviug forw,»rd with tlie inteutiou of attackiug the rebels. Ho met sev- j eral boats, the crews of whieh 1 j were to uttack frum seaward. ' wliilst the Tuamasaga were to | mak»; the attack at tlie same time • froin iulrtnd, tlie balauce of the i ' party to attick frora one or both sides. He raentioned to the cliinfs i 1 of the attacking party tlie object j of his visit to Apia, but had t slight hopes of the struggle being ; averted* Oo coming to Apia he iuforuied the authont.es of what lie had been told, and on tbe nest tide left for Aaua to ugaiu eommunicate with the rebels. It was resolved tliat tlie Consnls should bold their interview with j the Atua pe"ple, and dnring the ' afteriioon H. B. M. Consul Cus-acv-Smith, went overland to L'i filufl, whilst tbe Pres.dant, Ger man and U. S. Consnls weat by boat on the following raorning. Frora all tbe reports wliieh eoutinued to reach Ap a, it appeared lhat the quarrel as far as Aana was concerned. was between that ; district and Savaii, as several | tnues wheu people of the Taama | saga and Aana parties raet t!ie ntmost friendiiness prevailed At i different titues eight of the Tua - mas.iga warriors were taken bv 1 I the otlier party, who coutente.l 1 tliemselws by t;ikiug their ritles ; and ainraunition and sendmg them away,instead of,as istlieSamoan cust jid, t »kmg their heads. On the Atua side it appe>»red as tfaongh tbe qnarrel b>re a ditferent aspect. as the Gov9rnment m3sseuger who conveyed a letter to that plaee, had considerabIe difliculty m etfecting his return to“Apia in safcty. ;»nd had it not beeu for the assistance rendered by some | u.«tives of Solosolo woukl in all probability have lost his liead. At two o’eloek on Taes.l»v inorning two wounded men were i bruught to Apia, and from them , w;»s received the news of a great fight at Satupuala whieh had ! t;»ken plaee on the previons day. \ Nineteen had been killeel and j | over 30 wonnded whieh is qnite a large number wheu one ttkes iutoacconnt how few are really struck in the progress,of a Sarao- j i an fight. Of tbe killed 11 be- : longed to tbe Government party. 1 whilst the remaining eight were snpplied by the rebels. Of the wounded over twenty belong to ! the Goverument, and abont twelve * of the rebels. It was foand that * ten heads had been laken of j i whieh nnmber six belong to the attacking and four to the defend- : ing party. Althoogh the list of I casualities on tbe Government j 1 s ide was mueh greater than on that of their enemy, tbe former obtained a decided advantige : from the day’s proceeding3. The extra nnmber of killed and wounded is due to the fact that Malietoa's (oIlo«ers «ere 6ghtiog ia the open. whilei ihe rebeU tke'co«tas oi ookawiuia

of theīr so-crtlled forts. From the resa:t of M >nday it was very erident tn »t so far as Ama w»s coneerned the w«s ncver ncar. Tfae rebel party was great!y d s cour «ged «nd the r sapp!y of ammau tion was becoming very small. Letters coutinned to arrive in the rebsl eamp from Atna telling them to bestrong, as very soon tbe Atua i'eople wonld be takicg a pr>mineut part in the strngg!e. On the evenmg of Monday a large boat went down the coast flying a whiie fl«g. Although the boat eonti«nevl over fifty people it was knowu to belong to one of tbe m!ssionarie>. , anei w«s not overb;«aIed. lt his since been asserted that this particular boat (whieh went to the rebel camp> took a supply of ammuniiion fro«n Atua. The Consu!s held a moeting with the Government aothoritics onTl«ursd«y, M>«rc!i 22ud. and j iodnced the Govcrnment to pr>> mise uot to attack the Aan 1 p irt\ 1 '1 I nntil the C >nsals h«d cmle «vore«l to see the latter and obt «iu t!ieir siibmission and the surrend- r of their we.ipons. lt is n*>t at aU j Lkely that the rebels will give ! op tbeir arms. The Provision il Government hns received a f «rewdl ad«lress from a Mrs. Miry Clernent i Leavitt, in whieh she oxhorts it to make Hiwiii a prohibition j couutry. ’ We nre not aware that Mrs. Leavitt has uny knleanu i here, and it has evidently never ! entered her niind th«t the man,.gernent of affairs liere shonId b? and will be left to t!io people, and not to tlie s\veet will or crauky ideas of a lot of igm>raut silly women. As nn ex «mple of Mis. Mary Cleraent Leavitt’s 1nent.1l caliber, we pnblish the (ollowiup ; gem from hcr peu whieh api>e «red in tho Western Christuin A>1 vocate, and whieli ent tles the j lady to be heard rather in a Iun.«- | tic asylum or a pnyer meoting • tban in tbe councils of a N,«t!oa. 1 Says Mrs. Lea\ itt: “I have traveled nml worked i in thirty-two States of thb Union. | ; «nd iu nearly every conntry in tne kuowu world, I have uever 1 fonnd in any comraunity a 1 -.rgi*i percentag>) «>f ahle mealhan l«ere. uor of college gr .dnates ... Eng ! Iand was slnfted by tlie firas nl i persecntion f«>r seed corn t > plnnt Araerica, and ns a consRquencf Amenea has always l»een, ;«nd i;- j now. better thau Eugland. Tli.«t shifting W;«8 involuat,«ry aml re gretted by the col«mists. E«rl\ in t!iis century America s fted her ch«irches f«>r see«l corn tn plant Cliristianity in tlie.se islands. The colonv that has r«ssulted is better thun America to-dav.”