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fines levied by the Chief Justice that had origi- 

 nally provoked their resistance. 



The Aanas were willing to observe the peace 

 and return to their villages but for the Savaiians, 

 who refused to go back to their island and set- 

 tled in Tuamasaga, on the border of Aana. The 

 German cruiser " Palke " arrived on April 15, 

 and the English man-of-war " Curacoa " on April 

 21. When the Savaiians at last promised to 

 withdraw to their homes, after celebrating a 

 peace festival, all save 100 men for the protec- 

 tion of the Government, the Aanas agreed to 

 the terms of the peace and sent in the 50 stand of 

 arms useless, broken guns on May 21. The 

 Savaiians did not depart, however, for the people 

 of Atua, angered at the failure of the Govern- 

 ment and the whites to rid the island of their 

 hereditary enemies from Savaii, were arming 

 themselves, and threatened to attack the Sa- 

 vaiians in behalf of their brothers of Aana. 



When the King sent some of his regular forces 

 into Atua to assert his authority they were re- 

 ceived with rifle shots. The King's forces were 

 soon confronted by a large body of rebels. Skir- 

 mishes occurred, and robberies and the taking 

 of heads and the maltreatment of women began 

 again. Tamasese headed the insurgent party, 

 which was joined by warriors from Aana. There 

 were said to be 7,000 under arms. The German 

 naval officers sympathized with Tamasese and 

 his followers. Nevertheless, when Chief-Justice 

 Ide and Herr Schmidt, the President of the 

 Municipal Council, joined the consuls in a re- 

 quest for the intervention of the war ships for 

 the re-establishment of law and order, the Ger- 

 man and English commanders jointly sent an 

 ultimatum requiring 10 chiefs to tender their 

 submission on board the " Curacoa'' and deliver 

 up 50 guns. The chiefs went through the form, 

 and returned to the rebel camp. The 50 rifles 

 that were surrendered were worn-out weapons, 

 as usual. After the departure of the vessels the 

 rebels attacked a village where Malietoa was 

 supposed to be. Desultory fighting continued 

 for two months, both sides holding their posi- 

 tions, while planting was entirely neglected. 

 On Aug. 10, as the result of conferences between 

 ths consuls and the naval officers, the British 

 cruiser " Curacoa " and the German corvette 

 " Bussard " proceeded to the rebel stronghold, 

 Luatoanuu, and notified the chiefs that the place 

 would be bombarded next morning. The rebels 

 evacuated their stronghold during the night. 

 After shelling and nearly destroying the fortifi- 

 cations the naval commanders again communi- 

 cated with the chiefs, ordering them to disperse 

 their followers and surrender their arms. They 

 refused, and marched along the coast toward 

 Lufilufi, where they made a stand and attacked 

 the King's forces that pursued them, killing sev- 

 eral men. On Aug. 13 the naval vessels opened 

 fire, killing or wounding a large number, while 

 Malietoa's forces attacked by land. The rebels, 

 whose loss was heavy, sued for peace. The 

 chiefs went on board the " Curacoa " and prom- 

 ised to submit to Malietoa's rule, to pay taxes, 

 and to deliver up 100 rifles. On the following 

 evening, having been re-enforced by Aanites, 

 they renewed the attack upon the King's men, 

 and the " Bussard " fired upon them through 

 the night. The rebels withdrew from this part 



of the coast, and the insurrection broke out 

 again in Aana. The German commander hav- 

 ing refused to help the British in suppressing 

 the rebels, Malietoa was told that he could ex- 

 pect no further assistance from the war ships. 

 The English commander, however, conveyed 

 him to Aana, and while both vessels lay off 

 shore sent a message to Tamasese commanding 

 him to come on board and " crawl to the feet of 

 Malietoa," and to give up 100 rifles and disband 

 his army "or take the consequences." Herr 

 Schmidt, who was laboring with Tamasese as a 

 mediator, induced him to accept these terms and 

 to deliver up some escaped convicts. Accord- 

 ingly he went on board and made his submis- 

 sion. The people of the disturbed districts were 

 not submissive. They would pay no taxes, and 

 when the land commissioners went to Aana to 

 survey claims they were not allowed to do their 

 work. The claims filed with the land commis- 

 sion amount to 24,000 acres more than the actual 

 area of the islands. British subjects claim titles 

 to 283,600, Americans 276,000, and Germans 

 135,122 acres. The war vessels remained in 

 Samoan waters because both factions armed 

 themselves for a fresh struggle. The only 

 sources of income were the municipal rates of 

 Apia after the people refused to pay the head 

 tax, amounting to more than half their gross 

 revenues, for the support of foreign officials. 

 The salaries of the King's advisers are $5.000 

 and $6,000, while the King's salary is only 

 $1,000, and for many months he had received 

 none. 



In November the representatives of all the 

 villages that were opposed to the Govern- 

 ment withdrew from Apia to Atua to hold meet- 

 ings. Both Atua and Aana forbade inhabitants 

 of the districts that fought on the side of the 

 Government to return to their villages, some of 

 which were burned down. 



SANTO DOMINGO, a republic in the West 

 Indies occupying the eastern part of the island 

 of Hayti or Santo Domingo. The Congress is a 

 single house of 22 members, elected, like the 

 President, indirectly for four years. Gen. Ulises 

 Ileureaux, who first became President on July 

 20, 1886, was re-elected for the second time in 

 November, 1892. 



The area of the republic is 18,045 square 

 miles. The population is estimated at 417,000. 

 Santo Domingo, the capital city, had 14,150 in- 

 habitants in 1892. 



The receipts of the Government for 1890 were 

 estimated in the budget at $3,828,329, and ex- 

 penses at $3,837,300. There is a foreign debt 

 amounting to 714,300 sterling, with 680,000 

 interest in arrears at the end of 1890. A new 6- 

 per-cent. loan of 900,000 was contracted in 

 1890, on which no interest has been paid since 

 March, 1893. The internal debts in 1889 

 amounted to $2,931,375 in 1889. The revenues 

 are collected by the San Domingo Improvement 

 Company, an American corporation, which has 

 acquired the bonds held by a Dutch firm and 

 contracted to complete the railroad toward the 

 center of the island. This company has also 

 undertaken to introduce a new coinage on a 

 gold basis, with subsidiary silver dollars 8 

 grains heavier- than those of the united and 

 fractional coins of full proportional weight and 



