These details are, of course, fantastic guesswork, but we do
not doubt that a year or two ago Germany and England most wisely came to an agreement as to what should be done, granted that Portugal could not meet her obliga- tions and would be obliged to part with a portion of her African possessions. Probably the arrangement was that Germany should buy the Northern, and we the Southern, half of Portuguese West Africa, and it is also conceivable that Germany also arranged to take Timor and Macao, but it is, of course, impossible that we should allow Goa and Daman, which are Indian enclaves, to pass to Germany. The fact is, the Lokalanzeiger, as often happens with newspapers, knows more than there really is to know about the Anglo-German agreement. That instrument will, we venture to assert, prove not nearly so detailed and specific as the public imagines. In one respect, however, we fancy that it will turn out that the Lokalanzeiger has not been quite detailed enough, for it makes no mention of Zanzibar.
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