Samoa Startled

Nazi Broadcast via America

Prom Our Own Correspondent

Apia, Dec. 12.

RESIDENTS of Western Samoa were greatly surprised when they heard on the radio, two weeks ago, that German broadcasting stations had announced to America the existence of serious unrest in Western Samoa, a former German colony.

Nobody in peaceful little Samoa, where Europeans and Samoans alike, since the outbreak of war, have surpassed each other in expressions of loyalty and offers of assistance to New Zealand and the British Empire, had seen the slightest manifestation of any unrest.

This sample of lying Nazi propaganda, however, served the useful purpose of showing the Samoan public how unre liable the German radio broadcasts are.