PENAL SETTLEMENT IN PACIFIC.
STATEMENT BY THE GERMAN CONSUL. AGAINST AGREEMENT BETWEEN BRITAIN AND GERMANY. Received ■Februrnry 3, 11.17 a.m. SYDNEY, February 3. The German Consul-General does not attach importance to the suggestion to establish a penal settlement in the German Pacific settlements. The party making the proposal is a small one, and clause 5 of the reciprocity agreemant between Germany and England, made in 1886, concerning freedom of trade in German and British possessions, says that both Governments engage not to establish any penal settlement in or transport convicts to the Western Pacific.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9046, 4 February 1908, Page 5
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94PENAL SETTLEMENT IN PACIFIC. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9046, 4 February 1908, Page 5
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