Next morning the British flag was hoisted with all due ceremony. The troops were drawn up in three sides of a square facing the court-house--the seat of the new Government. Inside the square and facing the flagstaff were Colonel Logan and staff in their rough khaki uniforms, with them the naval Commanders. On the left the high Samoan Chiefs, Tanu-Malietoa and Tamasese--who had been specially invited to attend the ceremony--with other Chiefs made a picturesque group. Fifteen years ago some of those present had seen the young Chief Tanu placed on the throne of Malietoa, with the representatives of the allied fleets of Great Britain and America and the civil authorities of these natives in attendance, and the Germans conspicuous only by their absence. A few minutes before 8 o'clock all was ready. The commands to the troops had ceased and an intense silence had prevailed. Two bluejackets and a naval lieutenant stood, with the flag, awaiting the signal. Presently the first gun of the Royal salute from the _Psyche_ boomed out across the bay. Then slowly, very slowly, inch by inch, to the booming of twenty-one guns the flag was hoisted, the officers with drawn swords silently watching it go up. With the sound of the last gun the flag reached the top of the flagstaff and fluttered out in the southeast trade wind above the tall palms of Upolu. The troops came to the Royal salute as the band played the National Anthem. The reading of a proclamation by Colonel Logan terminated the brief but finely impressive ceremonial. The German Governor, Dr Schutz, was sent to Fiji and subsequently to New Zealand. With similar ceremonies Herbertshöhe in Neu Pommern was occupied by an Australian force. * * * * * On the 14th September the German cruisers _Scharnhorst_ and _Gneisenau_ made their appearance at Apia, but on the New Zealanders manning the guns the ships left for the open Pacific. A German merchant ship was at the time at Pango-Pango in the American island of Tutuila, and ten members of the crew deserted and rowed the seventy miles to Apia, where they hoped to find the _Scharnhorst_ and _Gneisenau_. They were, however, arrested by the British authorities. A British administration was set up. The German officials in the old administration resigned their appointments, but the natives decided to continue under British rule. CHAPTER VI KIAU-CHAU In their various "voyages of discovery" and enterprises to extend their trading operations, it was inevitable that the European nations should endeavour to find an opening into China. From being a dreaded volcano whence streams of lava in the shape of devastating hordes constantly overflowed to upset the ideas of culture as conceived by the nations who radiated the principles of "civilisation" in succession to the fallen Empires of Greece and Rome, China had retired into a seclusion, only to be disturbed when "Progress" knocked at her doors.