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Beach Road

Two persons walk past the last major German constructed building in Samoa 16 August 2004, the central administration building, on Apia's Beach Road. Out front 90 years ago this month New Zealand formally seized the Pacific nation from Germany. August 29 is the anniversary of New Zealand's 1914 seizure of German Samoa. Australia later seized German Guinea and Nauru while Japan took Germany's Micronesian territories.

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