Still Some Nazi Sympathisers
pp. 29-30 · Read in the full issue
in Samoa
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, June 17. 11 SEVERAL instances of offensive be haviour on the part of young German-Samoans have been re ported recently.
In view of the Nazi racial policy, it is difficult to understand how any sane person of Samoan descent can harbour Nazi sympathies. Nevertheless, the effect of Nazi propaganda on the native popu lation must be considered, and these cases should be severely dealt with.
Mr. George Miedecke, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Miedecke, of Magia Plantation, Western Samoa, is now serving as a flying-officer in a Sunderland flying-boat squadron of the Royal Air Force in Great Britain.
Mr. W. Gordon Smith, who is well known in mining circles in New Guinea, where he enlisted with the AIF, has been discharged in Brisbane as medically unfit. He will leave for Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, this month, under engagement to Mr. Theodore’s new Aus tralian mining syndicate. Mr. Smith is a former resident of the Solomon Islands and Fiji.