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faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this 13th day of February, in the year of our Lord 1878, and of the Independence of the United States the 102nd.

By the President. (Signed)

WM. M. EVARTS,

Secretary of State.

SIR,

Enclosure 4.

(Map of Neutral Territory in and Apia.)

Enclosure 5.

(See paragraph 76 of Report.)

GERMAN CONSUL to Acting British Consul Churchward.

Imperial Gerinan Consulate for the South Sea Islands,

Apia, January 25, 1885.

I HAVE the honour to inform you that in consequence of the unfriendly attitude assumed recently by the Government of King Malietoa towards German interests, I have this day, in a way of reprisal, attached, in the name of the Imperial German Government, all the territory forming the municipality of Apia, as far as the rights of sovereignty of King Malietoa and his Government are concerned, and I shall hold the same as security for the duc fulfilment of the existing treaty obligations on the part of

the Samoan Government.

As a public manifestation of this measure, Captain_Pluddemann, of H.I.G.M.S. Albatross" will hoist the German flag at Mulinuù. I beg to enclose copy of the

letter I have to-day addressed to King Malietoa on the subject.

As regards the administration of municipal affairs, I am agreeable to continue the present arrangement until an ultimate settlement has been arrived at; it will, however, be understood that in the meantime the Samoan flag shall not be hoisted within the boundaries of the municipality.

I have, &c., (Signed) R. STUEBEL.

COPY of INCLOSURE in GERMAN CONSUL'S LETTER.

On the 6th of November last year, Your Highness and your Government appeared before the German Consulate to humble yourselves. You acknowledged thereby that you had for a long time disregarded German treaty rights.

Already, on the 4th November, Your Highness wrote to me that the prisoners who, in February last year, escaped in consequence of the order of your Government, out of the German prison, would be brought back.

Subsequently, I made an agreement with your Highness's Government. I supposed that all difficulties which arose formerly would be removed thereby.

Your Highness's Government, however, resumed the old inimical attitude towards Germany. Not all the prisoners were brought back, and those who were escaped again soon after, and Your Highness's Government did not think of taking the trouble to return the prisoners.

In a letter which you wrote to me on the 20th of November, you say that it is generally known that Samoa was to be taken away by force by the Crman Government.

Since then the followers of Your Highness have not ceased to malign Germany. Seumann and Lanata have repeatedly, in meetings, designated Germany as a robber land, as a country of slavery, and as a country without religion. Under these circum- stances it was impossible to fulfil the articles of the agreement of the 10th of November. Germany can no longer look upon this state of affairs with equanimity, and I, as representative of the Imperial German Government in Samoa, had to concert measures which were likely to secure the rights and interests of German subjects in Samoa.

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