'A white constable and two members of the Samoan Mau or Native Party were killed and two constables and thirty Mauites injured at Api Samoa, on Saturday in the mos serious disturbance in Samoa since New Zealand assumed a mandate from the League of Nations over it after the War.
The rioting resulted from an attempt by the police to arrest several wanted men who had been participate ing in a procession in honour of the return of a man named A. G.
Smythe from deportation.
An Irish constable was beaten to death but police reinforcements armed with revolvers rescued other policemen from the mob—Reuter.
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