GERMANY IN THE PACIFIC.
; A STATEMENT DENIED. ; Sydney, March 16. ' Mr. Irmer, Consul-General for Germany, characterises as absurd the cable tftvait Germany, intended to seize an island in the Pacific and transform it into a naval tee. He poirots out that Britain, Germany, France and America have already appointed an administrator in the Pacific, and added that the scare couves, as usual, from an American source. A section of the New York press, he alleges, seldom loses an opportunity of putting Australia' against Germany. The reports are circulated for the purpose of causing irritation.
i PEACEFUL SAMOA. NO NEED FOR GERMAN WARSHIPS, Auckland. Last Night. On. the 7th inst., when the steamer Tymeric was at Apia, Samoa, there was no sign of any trouble among the natives there. "In fact," said Mr. Postle, chief officer of the Tveinric, in conversation to-day, "a more peaceable lot of natives one could not <\vish to come aCToss." ' Mr. .Pottle added that as far as lie could «ie there was no need l'or. German Warships.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 44, 17 March 1909, Page 3
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171GERMANY IN THE PACIFIC. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 44, 17 March 1909, Page 3
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