District Officer Boeder orders ten strokes of the cane for a Sokehs road worker.
What happened
The Sokehs men were doing road work owed under the new labor tax. German files describe the punished man as “defiant”; the Catholic history says a German supervisor beat a Pohnpeian worker and the laborers then stopped work.
Who’s who
- Gustav BoederGerman district officer on Pohnpei whose flogging order set off the Sokehs Rebellion; killed 18 October 1910.