Berlin, Oct. 2.
Papers here give considerable prominence to news of the formal annexation of a group of islands in the' Phoenix Archipelago by Great Britain, 'The Phoenix Islands ore situated about 600 miles north of Samoa, but fare still south of the equator' and consist of eight Islands with a total area of 60 square miles and 2 population of sixty persons.
Up to now, no power had claimed the rights of sovereignty over these Islands, although their flanking posi. ton in rogerd to the most important Pacific islands gives them considorable strategic value~-Trans-Ocean no Min,
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