PENAL SETTLEMENT
VIEWS OF GERMAN CONSUL-GEN-ERATE. Press Assaciation-Bv Telegraph-Copyright SYDNEY. February 3. The German Consul-General does r.ot attach importance to the suggestion to establish a German penal settlement in the Pacific. The party is a small one and clause 5 of the reciprocity agreement between Germany and England, mide in 1886, concerning freedom of trade between Germany and British possessions says that both Governments .-hall er.gage not to establish any penal settlement in, or transport convicts to, the western Pacific-.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13510, 4 February 1908, Page 6
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80PENAL SETTLEMENT Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13510, 4 February 1908, Page 6
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