DUMPING. THE GERMAN PROPOSAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1908, Page 7

DUMPING. THE GERMAN PROPOSAL.

/ WHAT MR. DEACON THINKS. j By Telegraph.— Press A*sociation.-*-Copyright. MELBOURNE, 2nd February. Mr. Deakin, Prime Minister, interviewed on the German convict proposal, laid: "One does not comment on a proposal made to a foreign Parliament, because comment at this stage might be an intrusion. All I will say is that the German Reichstag is certain to consider the influence upon its own tropic possessions of the influx of such a class of iettlers. We could not witness such a departure without regret for their settlements on, the Pacific*, and without some apprehension for our own." SUGGESTED PROTEST. SYDNEY, 2nd February. Mr. Wade, Premier of New South (Vales, is of opinion that some protest should be made against the proposal of the Imperial party in Germany to send convicts to the Pacific colonies. STATEMENT BY THE GERMAN CONSUL. ' PENAL SETTLEMENTS PROHIBITED BY AGREEMENT. (Received February 3, 11.17 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The German Consul-General does not attach importance' to v the suggestion to establish a penal settlement in the German Pacific settlements. The party making the proposal is a small one, and clause 5 of the reciprocity agreement between Germany and England, made in 1886, concerning freedom of trade in German and British possessions,' says that both Governments engage not to establish any penal settlement in or transportconvicts to the Western Pacific.