A postcard welcoming Samoa to the German Empire. Samoa was a German protectorate from 1900 until its seizure by New Zealand on August 29, 1914. The German East Asia Squadron reached the islands on September 14, 1914, but Vice Admiral von Spee concluded he would not be able to hold the islands."Talofa" is the Samoan equivalent of "Aloha".
Talofa Samoa - Aloha (Samoan greeting)"Ausstellung Samoa", unsere neuen LandsleuteGreetings,Samoa!"Samoan Exhibition", our new countrymen
"An enterprising Captain had already on the outbreak of war invaded the Germany colony of Togoland. We now proposed, in conjunction with the French, to attack the Cameroons — a much more serious undertaking. General Botha had already declared his intention of invading German South-West Africa. The New Zealand and Australian Governments wished at once to seize Samoa and the German possessions in the Pacific. An Anglo-Indian expedition was authorized for the attack of German East Africa."
Winston Churchill describing how, 'On an August morning, [one could] behold also the curious sight of a British Cabinet of respectable Liberal politicians sitting down deliberately and with malice aforethought to plan the seizure of the German colonies in every part of the world!' General Louis Botha was the first Prime Minister of South Africa, part of the British Empire. From Churchill's The World Crisis 1911-1918.
The World Crisis 1911-1918 by Winston Churchill, pp. 171, 172, copyright © by Charles Scribner's Sons 1931, renewed by Winston S. Churchill 1959, publisher: Penguin Books, publication date: 1931, 2007
1914-08-29, August, 1914, Samoa, Togoland, Togo, Cameroon, German East Africa, German Southwest Africa
