[center][b][h1]SALUTE TO THE FALLEN[/h1][/b][/center]

[center][b][u]August, 1910[/u][/b][/center]

[b][u]August 8th[/u][/b]
The [b][color=orange]Kingdom of Samgola[/color][/b] welcomes the Zellonian delegation to their capital of Kamrun. The King was absent, away on diplomatic matters to the south against the Fairun Tribes. Instead, the Zellonian diplomats are met by Prince Moustapha Niasse, Heir to the Kingdom of Samgola. They eat a hearty breakfast and begin negotiations. The first is that the Samgolans will enter the Zellonian sphere of influence. Prince Niasse, eager to learn the Continental ways accepts this without reproach. They tour the city further--though it is hot, humid and muggy--before negotiating further in the day.

During the second round of negotiations, the Zellonians inform Prince Niasse that they will be guaranteeing the independence of Samgola from potential future aggression. This however ends negotiation as Prince Niasse become angry. "Samgola is an [i]independent[/i] nation and needs no justification from foreign powers!" The Zellonian delegation was returned to their rooms and on August 9th would return to the new Zellonian Embassy there in the city of Kamrun.

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[i]The flag of the Kingdom of Samgola[/i][/center]

Samgola's inclusion in the [b][color=maroon]Republic of Zellonia[/color][/b]'s [i]Greater Economic Zone[/i] would take time, but introducing another 900,000 farmers, 350,000 bureaucrats and 700,000 workers would help bolster a Zellonian economy held afloat by colonial endeavors. Within days, entrepreneurs from Zell were filling out "Overstay Visas" to enter the Samgolan nation and get to work on expanding their basic, almost entirely pre-industrial economy. The fast acting Zellonians caused a reaction in the international community, where the [b][color=yellow]Republic of Estalia[/color][/b] and the [b][color=blue]Empire of Sessau[/color][/b] both ordered their foreign embassies to recognize Samgolan sovereignty.


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[i]Zellonian and Samgolan delegations, photograph taken August 8th, 1910[/i][/center]

Zellonia's [b]Day in the Sun[/b] however was marred by the explanation from the [i]Zellonian Overseas Department[/i] (ZOD) that investigators had begun their initial observations on the raid in Leylon, south of the new Republic of Xian but that 2,000 Zellonian refugees were flocking to Leylon as reports of attacks from the natives on the island colony of Surayanna reached word of the Zellonian Overseas Department at the capital of Leylon, Sumak.

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[i]Surayannan refugee boats left after the Crisis on August 8th, 1910[/i][/center]