Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1889 — ALL QUIET AT SAMOA [ARTICLE]

ALL QUIET AT SAMOA

The German* Withdraw Their Obnoxious Proclamations—There Was no Conflict, The following news has been received via Auckland from Samoa: A steamer has arrived here from the Samoan Islands with advices from Apia to the sth of -March. Everything was tranqnil when the steamer left. There had been no charige 1 gpf positions of Mataafa and Tamaseeee. The former had 6,000 men in his intrenched camp and the latter only 700. ‘ The German anthorities had withdrawn their proclamation of martial law and abandoned the right of searching vessels for contrabands of war. The foreign men of-war remained in the harbor of Apia. There had been no conflict or disturbance on sea or land since the last advices- All were awaiting instructions from Berlin and Washington.