Islands “Reds”

Communist Interest In Samoa Defeated.

From Our Own Correspondent

Apia, Aug. 20.

PROBABLY on account of the political unrest in Samoa, and the effect of the depression on our peaceful islands, attempts have been made to implant the germ of Soviet propaganda on Samoan soil.

A few months ago, letters were re ceived from New Zealand by two re sidents who are in straitened circum stances, asking them to start some Communist agitation amongst local Europeans. The residents, however, thought it wiser to hand the letters over to the authorities.

It was probably as a result of this that a man who tried to embark on the Islands steamer for Samoa was arrested by the New Zealand police.

Though the Samoan natives, like so many Pacific races, live under con ditions that are almost communist, the teachings of Soviet Communism are not likely to find a fertile soil here, even among the die-hards of the Samoan “Mau”.