GERMAN COLONIZATION IN SOUTHWEST AFRICA 
Germany be assured that protection would be afforded to all 
Germans in Angra Pequena, and that the question of land 
grants be referred to a joint commission. 
Meanwhile the German Government, growing impatient 
at the delay, began to act. On April 24, Bismarck wired 
Lippert, imperial consul-general at Cape Town, to declare 
officially that Herr Liideritz and his establishments were 
under the protection of the German Empire. And on June 
4 the German ambassador called upon Granville and in- 
formed him confidentially that Bismarck could not recog- 
nize the right of Cape Colony to annex Angra Pequena; 
nor could he approve of that method of extending the Brit- 
ish jurisdiction. This was followed by an intimation by 
Herbert Bismarck, who called on June 14, that Derby had 
been taking advantage of the delay to gain time for Cape 
Colony to annex the district in dispute. This was denied 
emphatically by Granville; and later Lord Derby prepared 
a “Memorandum,” ! explaining in detail each step in these 
negotiations, as seen from the English side, which was for- 
warded to Berlin in October, 1884. In this document it 
was clearly demonstrated that the German Foreign Office 
purposely permitted the British authorities to assume that 
the Kaiser had no definite intentions of setting up a German 
protectorate in Southwest Africa. The British officials were 
guilty of no breach of faith; but they cannot escape criticism 
for their lack of penetration and slowness in following up the 
advantages of their original position. The pressure of other 
matters of seeming greater importance and the delayed ac- 
tion of the Cape Government are not sufficient excuse for a 
lack of acuteness and promptness in following up a matter of 
this character. 
t Brit. Parl. Papers, 1884, Angra Pequena, cd. 4262, p. 39. See for whole 
correspondence, also, ed. 4265, cd. 4190, and the German Weiss Buch for 
the same year on “Angra Pequena.”