DELAGOA BAY.
The Portuguese are, it is said, becoming somewhat anxious about Delagoa Bay, saya; the St. James' Gazette. The moral of this is the foolishness of a small country which clings touseless territorial claims when it has already' moire colonial land than it oan use. Delagoai Bay has done Portugal no good, and it is now undoubtedly being used for the same purpose as our own island of Nassau in the Bahamas during the American Civil War; that is to say 0 it is a. depot for contraband. But Britain was a great power which the Federal Government could not-afford to offend. Portugal ia a small one, and in international affaire, as in most fields oi human activity, the quality of the person makes the quality of the act. Portugal runs a heavy risk in doing what Great Britain might do with impunity. Would it not be better for her to get rid of Delagoa Bay? Meanwhile nobody comments on the probabilities that contraband of war can get to the Boers through Demaraland. Yet why is) that impossible? The silence of commentators on this point bears usl out. Demaraland belongs to Germany, and it would bo most unbusinesslike to talk tr> Germany as one can to Portugal.
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Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9617, 20 April 1900, Page 2
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