German sailors had come ashore one day, wild with offended patriotism, to punish the editor with stripes, and the result was delightfully amusing.

The champions asked for the English printer.

They were shown the wrong man, and the blows intended for Cusack had hailed on the shoulders of his rival Jones.

On the 12th, Cusack had reprinted an article from a San Francisco paper; the Germans had complained; and de Coetlogon, in a moment of weakness, had fined the editor twenty pounds.
The judgment was afterwards reversed in Fiji; but even at the time it had not satisfied the Germans.

And so now, on the third day of martial law, the paper was suppressed.