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i CCORDING to newspaper re- X ports, the Governor of East imoa, Colonel Phelps Phelps, who is been in Washington, is seeking tcilities under which some 2,000 »ung Samoans of his Territory may ve expression to their desire to irve in the American armed ser ies. The authorities seem sym athetic.

Sociological thinkers seem to be .uch disturbed because less than 000 young Fijians, out of a total ! 125,000 Fijians, have been sent jroad on war service. What will ley have to say if 2,000 East Sa icans, out of a total of less than >,OOO, are similarly sent overseas, here are altogether some 90,000 amoans, but less than one third f that happy Polynesian race is in le American Territory. The re- Lainder are in West Samoa, under Z.