GERMAN CONVICTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 132, 27 February 1908, Page 7

GERMAN CONVICTS.

DUMPING IK THE PACIFIC.

AN AHGLOPHGBE/AS ADVOCATE,

G OVERNMENT EQUIVOCAL. pYTEIVEGiiArit— PRESS,ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. (Rcc Feb.: 2G, 11.1 .p.m.) ' Berlin, February 26. . Ilerr .Liebcrt, in tho Reichstag, moved a resolution in favour of the transportation' bf/'convicts tcj colonial .penal stations. 'He said -that. tuberculosis. ivas spreading among prisoners in Germany, and, lie suggested tho necessity,-or,giving-them a chauco to start a fresh lifo in .a new world.

. Herr Dcrtibnrg, Director of Colonial Affairs, said that'.the' Government would continuo. to pxamino the question, which needed earnest consideration,, owing to its financial and . ! iiatioiia,l; r nspeetß, but lie did not think it' Was 'bspediijnt,-to recommond the Houso to adopt the resolution. • Y V^LO-GERMAN : AMITY. ' ;(sec, 'Fel). 26, 11.1 p.m.) ; ,' ; ; London,;. February 26. . ; Coiiiit ;3letternich,V ; German AmbassaUor, ■speakibg : (as ai guest of. tho London Chamber of ' Commerce, said . thcro was no "skeleton in , tho' cupboard,standing between .Britain and; Ge'nmany.'. : " Good, relations," said- tho potirit; .■" iiro "a, stronger .protection'; than, annics and fleets." 'TREATY RIGHTS. Liobcrl,. ex-Governor of/German East Africa, >is : an'.Anglophobe. and is' one of the three—General.'Keim and Hcrrßasserman were /tho, otliers-rriamed by ;"The Times" in a lead-, ing iai'ticle as being the class of Anglophobc 'which Prince BuloVhad in the bast failed to discourage. In a speech' in October Herr; Liebcrt declared' that, Germany must set. herself :to out-distance England in the world. Above all, she'inuft spread the knowledge of the German language, v ■ ! . • " • THo Commonwealth Prime Minister, , Mr. Diiakin. 'in' ah interview on 1 February '2'\ concerning tho Gorman convict, proposal, -said "One does not comment on a proposal made to a. foreign Parliament; because comment at'this stage.might be-intrusion.' All that.l will say ■is ' that the. German' Reichstag .is 'certain to consider (lib influence upon ; it's own tropic possessions' of'- the influx- of- such ' a class of settlers.: \Wti- could not witness such, a departure without regret for. their settlements on tho":Pacific, and-'without some - apprehension for our own." : '- . ■ ■ ■' u'-', v, ■

Next; Jay, it' was reported 'that. tbe : .German Coiisul-Generr\l in Sydney, . Dr. Irrair did not attach'impcrtiineo to the 'suggestion to' establish': a .pen il . settlement in the German Pacific Islands. rThio party.making the proposal was h esaid,' a ,small one,'and clause 5 of the reciprocity agreement; between Germany:; and England, jhade in. 183G, ..concerning freedom of ti-ade in■■ German and, British possessions, says that' 'both' Govonimehts engage not to establish any .penal- settlement, in.',or ;lo transport con-, victs to the Western, Pacific..... : -i V'