Western Samoa
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Departure of UNO Mission
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Aug. 20.
THE Commission from the Trusteeship Council of UNO, which has been in Western Samoa since the end of June examining the petition of the Samoan people for a larger measure of self-government, left Samoa yesterday en route for the United States.
The members of the Commission ap plied themselves very industriously to their task and have interviewed hundreds of people in all parts of the Territory.
Their visit ended in a round; of farewell functions, cocktail parties and last im pressions.
The Commission will make an exhaus tive report. Prom what I have seen of the members I do not think they are likely to be bamboozled by the ambitious schemes and airy dreams of some of the people who discussed with them the future of Samoa.
The Samoans are still very confident that they will get self-government im mediately but no European shares their optimism.
An American ship visited Nauru in early August with a party who investigated the fate of US airmen lost on the island during the war. The party also arranged to collect the remains of those buried in the American Cemetery in the Boe district.