CONVICTS FOR THE PACIFIC.
A REPORT NOT WORTH NOTICING. By Telegraph.— rrcss Association —Copyright. (Received February 6 ( 10>50 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Federal Premier, Mr. Deakin, has received a telegram from tho German Consul-General in Sydney, stating that i the matter -of sending convicts to the Pacific was only mentioned by one man in the Reichstag, and passed quite.unnoticed by German public opinion. It Was! stated that the Imperial party in the Reichstag Was requesting the Government to modify tho poiia' code, I in order to provide for transportation to the German colonies in tho Pacific long-sentenced criminals who were physically and mentally adapted for removal From the outset tho German Consttl-Gcheral *did not attach importance to tho suggestion. Ho pointed out tlittt, elfltipo 6 of tho reciprocity agreement between Germany and England, made in 1886, concerning freedom of trade in German and British possessions, stated that both Governments engaged uot to establish any penal settlement in or transport convicts to tho Westorh Pacific.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1908, Page 7
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