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The German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau hastened to Samoa after Admiral von Spee learned of the occupation. He arrived off Apia on 14 September, three days after the departure of the last of the Allied cruisers and transports. The approach of the German ships was observed and the New Zealanders promptly manned their defences while many ...
German Samoa officially Malo Kaisalika / Kingdom of Samoa (German: Königreich Samoa; Samoan: Malo Kaisalika) [1] [2] [3] was a German protectorate from 1900 to 1920, consisting of the islands of Upolu, Savai'i, Apolima and Manono, now wholly within the Independent State of Samoa, formerly Western Samoa. Samoa was the last German colonial ...
German Samoa (1900−1920) — a former German colony in Samoa, Oceania. Subcategories. ... Occupation of German Samoa; S. Samoan crisis; Samoan Civil War;
World War I broke out in August 1914, and soon after, New Zealand sent an expeditionary force to seize and occupy German Samoa. Although Germany refused to officially surrender the islands, no resistance was offered and the occupation took place without any fighting. New Zealand continued the occupation of Western Samoa throughout World War I.
This is a list of former German colonies owned by states of Germany: ... German Samoa, 1900–1914; Protectorate of the Marshall Islands, 1885–1906 Nauru, ...
Hoisting the German flag at Mulinuʻu, Upolu on 1 March 1900. Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Samoan Islands (bordered in red), 1905. The German colonial empire in the Pacific Ocean. German Samoa is shown in red. Hoisting the Union Jack at Apia, Upolu on 30 August 1914. Flag of the governor of the Western Samoa Trust ...
Logan, now the Military Administrator of Samoa [13] and with the German governor Erich Schultz-Ewerth as prisoner of war, oversaw the official raising of the Union Jack the following day, formally declaring the occupation of German Samoa. [12] The SEF remained in Samoa until March 1915, when it began returning to New Zealand.
Occupation of German Samoa This page was last edited on 20 February 2020, at 07:16 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...