W. Samoa, Too!
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From Our Own Correspondent APIA, April 5. mHE tail-end of the Alaskan tidal wave X which brought death and destruc tion to the Hawaiian Islands on April 1, startled the residents of the Samoan Group who observed a marine disturbance at noon on the same day.
Fortunately for Samoa, it was only a very feeble demonstration of Nature’s power ful forces.
No damage or loss of life was suffered throughout this Group. On Apia’s main beach an unusually heavy sea broke against the shore and when the water re ceded it left the small motor vessels of Apia’s “mosquito fleet” high and dry on the mud, or jammed against the Customs wharf. Off-shore reefs and mudbanks. normally hidden under the surface of the sea, were exposed, and residents of Apia gathered at the beach to watch and discuss the unprecedented occurrence.
Apia kids had a Roman holiday; they gathered numerous small (and some big) fish which had been stranded in the mud.