NZ Political cartoon in response to German and French
political cartoons after being forced out in 1899
After The Tripartite Convention Treaty of 1899 where Britain retreated from Western Samoa and after the loss at The Apia Harbor Battle, there formed increased ill will after several political cartoons were spread in Europe by both French mainstream News and German mainstream News of the English being forced out.
British NZ Loyalists gave plea to English Lords over officers remaining in the region. For the next 10 years, rumor and propaganda were spread to sour relations between Samoans and Germans. In New Zealand, officials were eventually asked to form a military proxy force to seize a German-Samoan Wireless Radio Station in 1914, crying it to be a ‘great and urgent Imperial service’. The commanding officer was to Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Logan calling it an "Advance Party" and an "Expeditionary Force". The NZ soldiers landed at Apia Harbor on the 29th August 1914, breaking the 1899 Tripartite Convention Treaty. The next day Logan proclaimed a New Zealand-run British military occupation of the German building, an event that led to "The Battle of Cornel 1914".
After an NZ force took over an unguarded civilian owned German Radio Station in Samoa, New Zealand political cartoons were created (top photo), replying in a sense to 1899 political cartoons in Europe.
"This violation of the Tripartite Convention Treaty of 1899 was not to be forgiven by a growing militant Germany, and Samoa was now the starting place of the first World War in the Pacific. The British had used a New Zealand proxy force sent by The NZ Reform Party (loyalist political party) to attack an unarmed Radio Station, and had undermined Samoan-German relations throughout the decade"
German Navy battleships the SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau under command of Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee first docked at Western Samoa's Apia Harbor trying to catch the NZ force who had raided the unguarded Radio Station. Then afterwards left on orders to attack British Warships and found them between Eastern Polynesia and Chile (South America) and there happened the first open-seas bloodbath of the World War in the Asia Pacific-Polynesia. The British lost "The Battle of Coronel 1914" and the Germans killed an estimated 1,600 British soldiers (919 soldiers from the HMS Good Hope, 735 soldiers from the HMS Monmouth). The World War for other parts of the world began in 1917.
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