GERMAN PLANS MISCARRY.
ATTEMPT TO ACQUIRE A BRITISH PORT.
~., ~ London, Dccemocr 7. the Capetown correspondent of (lie Standard states that llerr Demlmrg, German Director of Colonial Affairs lias failed to gain possession of Walfisch Bay permanently or for a term in return lor a concession offered to a British company to construct a railway. Had the offer been accepted, Johannesburg would have been half the distance I torn Walnsch Bay that it is from Cape-
Mr. Mernman, Premier of Cape Colony, and General Botha, Premier o f. the Iransvaal, resented the overtu-es which were made without the know' ledge of the Imperial Government.
Walfisch Bay is a British possession .cut out of the coast land of German' South-west Africa.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 296, 9 December 1908, Page 3
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119GERMAN PLANS MISCARRY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 296, 9 December 1908, Page 3
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