GERMANY.
A LARGE DEFICIT. ANOTHER ESTIMATED FOR THIS YEAR. United Press Association, Copyright BERLIN, Dec. 7. Herr Sigdow, Secretary of the German Treasury, stated in the Reichstag that the deficit for 1907 was £6,900,000. The estimate for the current year. was £5,360.000.
GERMANS IN SOUTH AFRICA.
A SCHEME THAT FAILED
CAPETOWN, Dec. 7
The correspondent of the “Standard”' gives details of the failure of Herr Dernburg, Director of Colonial Affairs in Germany, to secure Walfiscli Bay, permanently or for a term, in return for a concession to a British company to construct a railway. Had the offer been accepted Johannesburg would have been half the distance from Walfisch Bay that it- is from Capetown. Mr. Merriman and General Botha resented the overtures, which were made without the knowledge of the Imperial Government.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2369, 9 December 1908, Page 5
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