If you obey this instruction, then you will all be forgiven; if you do not obey, then all your villages will be burnt like Manono.

These instructions are made in truth in the sight of God in the Heaven." The same morning, accordingly, the _Adler_ steamed out of the bay with a force of Tamasese warriors and some native boats in tow, the Samoan fleet in question.

Manono was shelled; the Tamasese warriors, under the conduct of a Manono traitor, who paid before many days the forfeit of his blood, landed and did some damage, but were driven away by the sight of a force returning from the mainland; no one was hurt, for the women and children, who alone remained on the island, found a refuge in the bush; and the _Adler_ and her acolytes returned the same evening.

The letter had been energetic; the performance fell below the programme.

The demonstration annoyed and yet re-assured the insurgents, and it fully disclosed to the Germans a new enemy.
Captain Yon Widersheim had been relieved.