NEW HEBRIDES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13356, 21 December 1906, Page 5

NEW HEBRIDES.

REPORTED GERMAN INTRIGUE.

THE IDEA SCOUTED.

United Press Association.— By , Electrio,

Telegraph. — Copyright. Reoeived December 21, 10 a.m.

Sydney,, , December 21.

A Gecm'an correspondent of the Her- , aid says that wKt«i the statement Tvag' malde in. Stjptem'ber last that German firms were >intriguing, to secure a foothold in the New 'Hebrides, so that Ger-many-might claim -the right? to intervention before the final Anglo-French settlement, Ec had enquiries mo.de xxo. | the spot-. His correspondent was a reI sident of longi stanttengi in the Group, i and intimately l acquainted 'witli the [ happenings 1 there. Moreover^ b was a Frenchman} so could not be suspected of partiality to Germans. He iwrote that there is a German copra-maketr at !A'c%a, and that two German merchanis ot Mouii'sai^eilter, nnd Mr Eagen, wEose scHooner sails Tinder* <bh& French' flag and is^ comonainded. by, a British subject, have jitst opened -a store at Api. One has a native wife, • who owns a pi-ece ofi land! tat sVola 1 , 'amd another at !A'pi, where «, Wore has beetf erected; also a piece df land at vAioba: "I heard it • stated' 1 Bays $hV'Fren'ch' correspondent; "that in former. years a 'German company •frora Samoa boujj-Et land in various parts o£ the of laic Germans had teen trying tod-o a'nytlbing, and I know -of fao oth'erOer^ man traders than : Zcifeh-er and H^jrim who carry o-n business withVui; "^rq.'ubTislahds, but never- heard it' S>asd ihatl ing about nationalities*.