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- Occupation_of_German_Samoa abstract "The Occupation of Samoa – the takeover and subsequent administration of the Pacific colony of German Samoa – started in August 1914 with landings by an expeditionary force from New Zealand called the "Samoa Expeditionary Force". This represented New Zealand's first military action in World War I.On 7 August 1914 the British government indicated it would be a great and urgent Imperial service if New Zealand forces seized the German wireless station near Apia, one of several radio stations used by the German East Asia Squadron. Since the days of Richard Seddon (Prime Minister of New Zealand 1893–1906), Wellington had aspired to control Samoa, and in 1913 the Commandant of the New Zealand Military Forces, General Godley, had discussed the seizure of German Samoa with British military authorities.A 1,370-man force sailed on 15 August 1914. The convoy stopped in Fiji to collect guides and interpreters and to rendezvous with the battlecruiser HMAS Australia, the cruiser HMAS Melbourne and the French cruiser Montcalm. The escorting "P" class cruisers Philomel, Pyramus and Psyche were no match for Admiral Maximilian von Spee's East Asia Squadron with the armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau. Defence Minister James Allen recalled that the Reform Government had concerns about the German squadron, but McGibbondenies any basis for the assertion in the 1923 history (and subsequently by Michael King) that the force narrowly escaped disaster, with the German cruisers being well to the north rather than only 15 miles (25 km) distant.The New Zealand force landed at Apia on 29 August 1914. Although Germany refused to officially surrender the islands, the local German authorities offered no resistance and the occupation took place without any fighting. The first seizure of a German colony had taken place four days earlier at Togoland, captured as part of the West Africa Campaign, nullifying claims that German Samoa was the first enemy territory to fall to British imperial forces. The German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau hastened to Samoa after Admiral von Spee learned of the occupation. He arrived off Apia on 14 September 1914, three days after the departure of the Dominion cruisers and transports. Von Spee learned that approximately 1,600 New Zealand volunteers were on Upolu, poorly trained and miserable in their woolen winter-weight uniforms, and that he could easily recapture the colony. However, he realised that a landing would only be of temporary advantage in an Allied-dominated sea, and instead sailed to Tahiti. He then rejoined the rest of his fleet and headed for South America.After escorting the Samoa force, the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force sailed to Port Moresby and met the Queensland contingent aboard the transport Kanowna. The force then sailed for German New Guinea on 7 September, for the another takeover of a weakly-defended German colony.The story that Francis Fisher (the New Zealand Minister of Marine from 1912 to 1915) recalled (as published by Downie Stewart in 1937) that the government asked London what defences there were in Samoa and was told by the British Colonial Secretary to consult Whitaker's Almanac was not supported by a search of papers in Archives New Zealand. The authorities in Melbourne advised that Samoa had a German-officered constabulary of about 80 men and a gunboat, which could have been augmented by seamen off merchant ships.The force occupied German Samoa until 1920. New Zealand then governed the islands as the Western Samoa Trust Territory from 1920 until independence in 1962 – firstly as a League of Nations Class C Mandate and after 1945 as a United Nations Trust Territory.".
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa combatant "*".
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa combatant "Germany".
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa combatant "United Kingdom".
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa commander Robert_Logan_(politician).
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa date "1914-08-30".
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa isPartOfMilitaryConflict Asian_and_Pacific_theatre_of_World_War_I.
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa place German_Samoa.
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa result "Allied victory".
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa strength "1,473 (landing party)".
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa strength "ca. 100 (militia and Fita-Fita)".
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- Occupation_of_German_Samoa caption "--08-30".
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa combatant "* *".
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa combatant "Germany".
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa combatant "United Kingdom".
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa commander "Colonel Robert Logan".
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa conflict "Occupation of German Samoa".
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa date "--08-30".
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- Occupation_of_German_Samoa partof "the Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I".
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa place German_Samoa.
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa result "Allied victory".
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa strength "1473".
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa strength "ca. 100".
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- Occupation_of_German_Samoa subject Category:Battles_of_the_Asian_and_Pacific_Theatre_(World_War_I).
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa subject Category:Conflicts_in_1914.
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa subject Category:Germany–Samoa_relations.
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa subject Category:History_of_Samoa.
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa subject Category:Military_history_of_New_Zealand.
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- Occupation_of_German_Samoa comment "The Occupation of Samoa – the takeover and subsequent administration of the Pacific colony of German Samoa – started in August 1914 with landings by an expeditionary force from New Zealand called the "Samoa Expeditionary Force".".
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa label "Occupation of German Samoa".
- Occupation_of_German_Samoa label "Оккупация Германского Самоа".
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