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The island was annexed by Germany in 1888 and incorporated into Germany's Marshall Islands Protectorate.
Accompanied by William Harris the German marines marched around the island and returned with the twelve chiefs, the white settlers and the Gilbertese missionary.
The chiefs were kept under house arrest until the next morning, when the annexation ceremony began with the raising of the German flag.
The Germans told the chiefs that they had to surrender all weapons and ammunition within 24 hours or the chiefs would be taken prisoner.
The arrival of the Germans ended the war, and social changes brought about by the war established kings as rulers of the island, the most widely known being King Auweyida.
Robert Rasch, a German Trader who married a native woman, was the first administrator, appointed in 1890.
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