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Samoa yielding postcard

Image

Shows cartoon of a Samoan woman leaning on the shoulder of a New Zealand soldier on a Samoan beach. A German lolls on a hammock in the right background, and says: 'You can have her an velcom but hurry up mit der trade'.

This refers to the New Zealand occupation of German Samoa in 1914, and to the impression that German business interests did not mind, so long as their trade links were not affected.

Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-1-125
Cartoonist: W. Blomfield
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image

How to cite this page

Samoa yielding postcard, URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/samoa-yielding-postcard, (Manatū Taonga — Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated