GERMANY AND PACIFIC.
Bctieme Not Likely to Eventuate
Press Association. — Telegraph.— Copyright. Received February 3, 11.17. a.m.
SYDNEY, February 3.
The German Consul-General does not attach much importance to the suggestion to establish a penal settlement an the Pacific. The party agitating for its establishment is a small one, and clause 5 of the reciprocity agreement between Germany and England, made in 1886, concerning: the freedom of trade in German and British possessions, says that both Governments engage not to establish any penal settlement in, or transport convicts to the Western Pacific.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXII, Issue 12381, 4 February 1908, Page 7
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92GERMANY AND PACIFIC. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXII, Issue 12381, 4 February 1908, Page 7
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