held in Kobe, Japan. That month, KK Karl Heuser relieved Engel as the ship's captain. Leipzig was dry-docked at Hong Kong for periodic maintenance in January 1909, and while there, she received orders to sail to German Samoa after the work was completed. Unrest against German rule threatened to break out, and the colonial governor, Wilhelm Solf, requested assistance from the East Asia Squadron. From Hong Kong, she proceeded to Manila in the Philippines; there, Coerper came aboard the ship for the voyage to Samoa. The ship arrived in Apia, the capital of German Samoa, on 19 March. By the 28th, she had been joined by the light cruiser and the gunboat , along with the steamer Titania, which carried a contingent of 100 local police. The local chief who had led the movement and some of his supporters were taken aboard Jaguar to Saipan, where they were exiled. The ships patrolled off Samoa through April, but by early May, the ships began to disperse. Arcona and Titania departed on 6 May, while Leipzig took Coerper to Suva, Fiji, stopping there from 14 to 17 May. There, he transferred to another vessel to return home. Leipzig then briefly returned to Samoa, though she was replaced by the unprotected cruiser on 21 May. From there, Leipzig steamed to Pago Pago in American Samoa, made a brief stop in Apia, before departing for Tsingtao, arriving there by way of Pohnpei and Manila on 29 June. For the rest of the year, Leipzig cruised with the squadron flagship, the armored cruiser , in northern waters. In early 1910, Leipzig and Scharnhorst met the gunboat in Hong Kong, and the three vessels embarked on a voyage south. Leipzig and Scharnhorst cruised together, at times with Luchs, to visit Siam and various ports in the South China Sea. During this period, in February, FK Hermann Schröder arrived to take Heuser's place as the ship's commander. The two cruisers then steamed back north to visit Japan in April and May. Leipzig made another voyage up the Yangtze in July, steaming as far as Hankou, where unrest had broken out. Leipzig and the armored cruiser steamed to Calcutta, India, in early 1911 to meet Crown Prince Wilhelm, who was on a tour of East Asia. The ships arrived there on 31 January, but an outbreak of plague in the area led Wilhelm to cancel the rest of