NZ troops taking over an unarmed Radio Station
and tampering with it's flag
In 1914, Britain used an New Zealand proxy force to attack an unarmed Samoan-German Imperial Radio Station after Britain had already signed the Tripartite Convention Treaty of 1899. This attack led to German battleships the SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau under command of German Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee to land at Apia docks, who then under orders left to attack British ships at "The Battle of Coronel 1914" (over 1,000 British lost), thus starting the first World War in the Pacific.

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