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Two days after his arrival , accordingly , Knappe addressed to Mataafa a threatening despatch . The German plantation was suffering from the proximity of his `` war-party . '' He must withdraw from Laulii at once , and , whithersoever he went , he must approach no German property nor so much as any village where there was a German trader . By five o'clock on the morrow , if he were not gone , Knappe would turn upon him `` the attention of the man-of-war '' and inflict a fine . The same evening , November 14th , Knappe went on board the _ Adler _ , which began to get up steam . Three months before , such direct intervention on the part of Germany would have passed almost without protest ; but the hour was now gone by . Becker 's conduct , equally timid and rash , equally inconclusive and offensive , had forced the other nations into a strong feeling of common interest with Mataafa .