[A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson]@TWC D-Link bookA Footnote to History CHAPTER V--THE BATTLE OF MATAUTU 14/30
I wish to know where I can go, and where the forbidden ground is, for I do not wish to go on any neutral territory, or on any foreigner's property.
I do not want to offend any of the great Powers.
Another thing I would like.
Would it be possible for you three consuls to make Tamasese remove from German property? for I am in awe of going on German land." He must have received a reply embodying Becker's renunciation of the principle, at once; for he broke camp the same day, and marched eastward through the bush behind Apia. Brandeis, expecting attack, sought to improve his indefensible position. He reformed his centre by the simple expedient of suppressing it.
Apia was evacuated.
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