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.