“An hour passed with nothing being heard from the landing party [delivering a summons to the German Governor to surrender]. After another half-hour's suspense the white flag was lowered from the "Psyche." The small cruisers moved closer in and simultaneously the transports moved seaward. The troops —in breathless expectation—waited every moment to see hostilities opened. But almost immediately the signal flags again fluttered and like wildfire the news ran through the Fleet that no resistance would be offered to the landing party. The reply ran in characteristic German style: "Though they could not surrender the Territory no resistance would be offered to the landing: that orders had been given for the Wireless Station to be packed up, and that they protested against the threat to bombard the port, such action being forbidden by the Hague Convention.””
“The first trip from each transport landed one company of infantrymen, one machine-gun section, six field engineers, three signallers, a medical officer and stretcher squad.” [Excerpt From: Stephen John Smith. “The Samoa (N.Z.) Expeditionary Force 1914–1915.” ]
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