SOWING MISTRUST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 298, 11 December 1908, Page 2

SOWING MISTRUST.

BETWEEN UERMAXY AXD BIUTALN THE WALFISCH BAY STATEMENT. Received lu, I'.Ua p.m. Berlin, December 111. Hen- Dcniburg, Minister for the Colonics, speaking in tuc Ueichstag, ausolulely Ucnied the Loudon Stiuwards W'allisch Bay statement. He described it as a mere invention calculated to .sow mistrust betwicen Germany (Mid. Britain. A London message, date the 7th inst., slated:—Jn conneeiion Willi tile recent visil of lien- Dernbuig (Uirector of Colonial Affairs in Cerniauy) to British South-west Africa, tlu' Capetown correspondent of the Standard gives details of an unsuccessful attempt made by llerr IJcrnburg to secure permanently for Germany W'allisch Bay (JJritis'iowned harbor in South-west Africa, '.it tached to Cape Colony). Germany offered in return a concession to a British company to construct a railway linking up the German South-west African lines with the Capetown-Johannesburg system. Had the offer been accepted, Juhaunesburg would have been connected by railway with Wallisch Bay, the distance being only one-half the distance from Johannesburg to Capetown, ill'. ■I. X. Merriman (Premier of Cape Colony), and General Botha (Premier of the Transvaal), resented the ovcrtiiris of Heir Dernbuig, wliieh were made without the knowledge of the Imperial Government.