CONVICTS IN THE PACIFIC.
GERMAN PROPOSAL,
CONTRARY TO TREATY OF 1886. HI TEI.EGEAS'H—NtESS ASSOCIATION—COI'TWGHT, \ Sydney, February 3. :',The .GermanConsul-General, Dr. Irmir, does not attach importance to the suggestion of-the Imperial party in Germany, to establish a ' penal settlement in the. German Pacific Islands. The party making the proposal is, he. . says, a small one, and clause .5 of the reciprocity agreement between Germany and England, made in 18Spl ; ' concerning freedom .of trade in German and British possessions, says that both Governments engage not. to establish any' penal settlement in or, to transport convicts to 1 the Western Pacific.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 112, 4 February 1908, Page 7
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98CONVICTS IN THE PACIFIC. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 112, 4 February 1908, Page 7
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