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Whereas, in August 1884, we promised our protection to an Association of German subjects, which has in the meantime adopted the name of the New Guinea Company, for a Colonial enterprize undertaken by them in islands of the Western Pacific, which are not under the sovereignty of any other Power;
Great Britain Foreign Office. Confidential Prints, No.5150. Further Correspondence respecting the Pacific Islands, pp. 103-5. The translation was forwarded by Sir Edward Malet to Earl Granville, 23 May 1885.
The original text is based on Nachrichten für und über Kaiser Wilhelms-Land und den Bismarck-Archipel, I (1885), pp.2–4.
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van der Veur, P.W. (1966). The Schutzbrief of 1885. In: Documents and Correspondence on New Guinea’s Boundaries. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3706-3_6
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