High Chief Mataafa, has been duly elected King of these islands. But where the hell does the Berlin treaty come in and Bismarks objection to Mataafa ?????
On the last day of December 1898, the Chief Justice rendered his decision declaring Mataafa ineligible under the treaty, and Malietoa to be King, with the result that, morally and materially aided by the Germans, Mataafa and his men descended upon the town and before New Year's Day was done, the Chief Justice had taken refuge on the English Man-of-War "Porpoise"– Malietoa Tanu was in hiding, and the Vice King Tamasese, with his principal chief and several hundred friendly natives had taken to their boats and placed themselves, under the shelter of the English cousin's guns – this is history and these are the facts.
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