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Taihape Daily Times, 8 January 1918, Page 7

A LAaSDOWNE EPISODE. In view of Lord Lansdowne's pacificist letter, wnicn was recently tne subject 01 liiucn uiaoussiun, it is nut witnout interest to recan mat fieivw the Minister in charge of the British Foreign Office in 1904, when Germany made a flagrant attempt to oust Australian traders from their rightful participation in the trade of the Marshall and Caroline Islands by prohibitive taxation. The islands in question were German possessions, and their government was delegated to a company known as the Jaluit Geselltrading concern, and had a practical monopoly of the group. But in 188 ti a treaty had been entered into between the German and British Governments providing, inter alia, that the subjects of both States should enjoy equal rights to trade and settle in the possessions or protectorates of the £*.vo States in the Western Pacific. This treaty was broken in a most shameless manner by the German authorities on the islands, who sougilt to establish for themselves monopoly of the trade of the Marshall and Caroline groups. Realising that they could not legally prohibit the ships of any British company from trailing there, they had recourse to a cumulative system of taxation, which became prohibitive. In the case of one small Australian steamer of 500 tons it amounted to a tax of £5850 per annum. The owners appealed to the Foreign Office, stating their grievances, arte asking to be informed of the rights which they understood were preserved to British subjects under treaty between Great Britain and Germany. The reply they received, under date of February 25, 1904, was as follows.: "I am directed by the Marquis of Lansdowne to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22nd hist., and to state that there is no treaty or agreement between Great Britain and Germany on the subject of, the Caroline Islands; but there is no reason to suppose that British persons and their goods do not enjoy most-favoured-na-tion treatment in those islands." When it became apparent that Lord Lansdowne could not be relied upon to maintain the rights of British traders, the matter was taken up by the Commonwealth and New South Wales Governments, it being emphatically declared that a breach of British treaty rights in the islands of the Pacific would not be tolerated, and retaliatory measures in respect of German ships trading to New South Wales were threatened It was then only that the German authorities agreed to withdraw the disabilities.

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