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Some biographical information on Hugo Gebauer per op . cit . “ Cyclopedia of Samoa ”, p . 100 .
Excerpted pages included from “ Deutsche Schutzgebiet , Samoa ,” Verlag von E . Leubke , Apia 1905 , cover and pp . 74-75 , from personal copy of the late H . Gebauer .
vii ) Some information on the origins of the German school in Apia per internet article at : http :// www . neueste . uni-bayreuth . de / SuedseeSchuleAusbIX . htm viii ) Information on the genealogical background of Sophia Fruean Gebauer supplied on 1 October 2013 by Fruean historian Frances Fruean- Moore , of Auckland . ix ) Some information on Olga Wolny Gebauer supplied by her great granddaughter , Dana Moller , of Wacken , in Schleswig-Holstein , Germany , in 2014 .
x ) Additional information on the Warns family , of Aleipata , derived from Information from Warns descendant Alice Morley Robertson , of Mt Wellington , Auckland , in telephone interviews on 26 & 30 Sept . 2013 ; also from Harry J . Moors , op . cit ., p . 40 ; also a Warns family birth certificate for Elisabeth Warns , obtained from the Samoa Births & Deaths Registry , Apia , dated 1891 and translated and reissued on 21 July 1955 , supplied by Christine Liava ’ a ; also information from Warns descendants Father William ‘ Vilo ’ Hansell and Grant Henderson , of Auckland . xi ) August Brysch letter advising of Adolf Spemann ’ s death during First World War is in the possession of William ‘ Bill ’ Spemann , of xii )
Auckland . It is almost certainly retyped from the original . The translation was prepared in 2013 by Reinhard Wendt and was facilitated by Christine Liava ’ a .
Some details of the German Memorial service of 3 July 1932 derived from op . cit . “ Samoa Herald ,” Apia , Samoa , Friday 8 July , 1932 .
xiii ) Details on the German years of Karl Gebauer supplied by Dana Moller ( see ix .).
xiv ) Information on the German years and wartime death of Ernst Gebauer derived in part from Gebauer descendants , Ernest Gebauer and Rudy Spemann , of Auckland . His death details are more definitively derived from the records of the German War Graves Commission and their entries for wartime casualties named Ernst Gebauer , of which there were a number . One Gebauer family report has Ernst missing believed killed in the Western Desert but Commission records are much more suggestive of Ernst being killed on 28 May , 1945 , in eastern Germany / present day Poland , as described .
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The Deportations of 1920 and the Journey of ‘ Mac ’ McKay
Sources for this chapter include : i )
Interviews with the late George A . McKay , of Auckland , son of C . G . R ‘ Mac ’ McKay , on 30 / 08 / 2013 , 9 / 09 / 2013 , 30 / 09 / 2013 and 9 / 10 / 2013 . ii )
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Caption material written by C . G . McKay below the photos in his beautifully arranged and preserved albums held ( at that time ) by George McKay . Identities of people , especially in group photos in this chapter , are derived mainly from Mr McKay ’ s detailed captions .
Some biographical information and incidents recounted in this chapter were also obtained from C . G . R . McKay , ‘ Samoana : Personal Story of the Samoan Islands ,’ A . H . & A . W . Reed , Wellington , 1968 .
McKay ’ s involvement with the German deportees in 1920 per his book op . cit . Samoana , p . 44 .
All ships facing out to sea when berthed in Apia Harbour after 1889 hurricane , per Ronald Rose , ‘ South Seas Magic ,’ Robert Hale Ltd , London , 1959 , p . 17 .
‘ Samoanische Zeitung ’ report of deportees travail on the day of departure on the ss Main per issue of 19 June 1920 ( p . 6 ) accessible through ‘ Papers Past ’ website .
Reinhard ‘ Teddy ’ Suhren quote re lack of financial compensation for confiscated Samoan land , per Teddy Suhren & Fritz Brustadt- Naval , ‘ Teddy Suhren : Ace of Aces ,’ Frontline Books , London , 2011 , Chapter 2 .
viii ) Brief portraits of the German deportees on the ss Main derived from many sources , including , for Richard Marggraff , information from Samoan Marggraff descendants or in-laws including Michael Margraff , of the USA , and Louni Hanipale Mose , of Auckland ; also mentions of Mr Marggraff in P . J . S . Cramer , ‘ A Review of Literature of Coffee Research in
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