Mau Still Aloof
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Stalemate Continues In Samoa
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, January 1.
THERE are few signs of improve ment in the political arena so far.
The hopes expressed by the New Zea land High Commissioner before the Mandate Commission of the League of Nations, and which seemed to be based on statements made by the late Ad ministrator, Colonel Allen, in his re cently published annual report, appear to be without foundation.
The participation of a few isolated Mau chiefs in the deliberations of the Land and Title Commission has not had any effect on the activities of the Mau movement. Efforts of the present Administrator, General Hart, to get in touch with and bring about a meet ing with the leading chiefs of the Mau have, unfortunately, so far proved un availing.
The petition of the Mau leaders, re cently despatched to the British. Am erican and German Governments (the signatories of the Three Power agree ment) attacks the New Zealand ad ministration and suggests that we are far from a reconciliation.