Young German-Samoans

Lost In Germany In 1939-1945

WHILE the Reverend C. W. Whonsbon- Aston, Vicar of Apia, Western Samoa (who has now returned to his charge after a 9 months’ holiday abroad) was in Germany a few months ago, he made efforts to trace German- Samoan children who were at school, or undergoing training in Germany, when war came in 1939, and who have been lost sight of.

He reports some success; but he savs that a number of these young people had been conscripted into the German Forces, and had been killed in action, and others had completely disappeared. Those whom he traced and made contact with were most dispirited, and were anxious to re turn to Samoa. But there was little chance of their being able to do so until a policy relating to these matters had been decided upon by the British Foreign Office.