WALFISCH BAY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12420, 9 December 1908, Page 3

WALFISCH BAY.

* " A GERMAN FAILQRE. [Press Association— Copyright.] • , . London! Dec. 7. The Capetown ccrrpspoudent of the "Standard" gives details of the failure nf ; HerrDeroburg, Director of Colonial Affairs in Germany, to aecure Walfiscb Bay permanently or for a -term in' return for a. concession to a British company to construct a railway. The correspondent adds that had the offer been, accented Johannesburg would have be'en half tlrf distance! f rom WalHsch Bay that itis from Capetown. Mr Merriman and General Botha resented German overtures, which were 'made without the knowledge of the Imperial Government,