CHAPTER VI--LAST EXPLOITS OF BECKER.
_September-November_ 1888 Brandeis had held all day by Mulinuu, expecting the reported real attack.
He woke on the 13th to find himself cut off on that unwatered promontory, and the Mataafa villagers parading Apia.

The same day Fritze received a letter from Mataafa summoning him to withdraw his party from the isthmus; and Fritze, as if in answer, drew in his ship into the small harbour close to Mulinuu, and trained his port battery to assist in the defence.
From a step so decisive, it might be thought the German plans were unaffected by the disastrous issue of the battle.

I conceive nothing would be further from the truth.

Here was Tamasese penned on Mulinuu with his troops; Apia, from which alone these could be subsisted, in the hands of the enemy; a battle imminent, in which the German vessel must apparently take part with men and battery, and the buildings of the German firm were apparently destined to be the first target of fire.
Unless Becker re-established that which he had so lately and so artfully thrown down--the neutral territory--the firm would have to suffer.

If he re-established it, Tamasese must retire from Mulinuu.