GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 520, 29 May 1909, Page 5

GERMANY

« , BRITISH LABOtR DEPUTATION. , |DI T«l,MIC»l'll-(lfS1« ttll^mj'nSpdilllllflllf) Berlin, May 27. »/.*«Tho attitudeiofi>the(Qermari''Sooial Demov rirats in'hold/rig aloof from 1 t~sl Wption of y tho Labour members of tho British House of i Commons is duo to Germany's refusal to --'consider Britain's overtaros'for a reduction '"of naval ivrmanienta " - Tho Socialists consider the demonstrations of 1 friendship are, in the circumstances, ' hypocritical. AN ENGLISH SOCIALIST'S VIEW. In the English Socialist weekly, "The Clarion," Mr Robert Blatchford write- dealing uith tho naval onsis from the Socialist point of view.'nnd urging the necessity iof cfv? m L organisation ot the national defences Mr. Blatohford writes:- , ' I am acoused of insulting Germany; I am aeoused of hostility to the German people. One correspondent, a, German,' asks me to what ', Germany I allude 'when I cay Germany means to make war upon England, u f*? l, * all, i cto t0 th « Germany whloh jttaoked and oroehed Austria'in 18(38; to the ■wrmany which attacked and orushed Franco l*..! 870, *.* 0 *& Q?™*** 'Woh humiliated I ■ ♦ J, thrcat °, f war »t the time of the 1 ' Morocco; to the Germany which has I ■««?. b SjI? th 2* the "JW. is a real danger, I and a growing danger. 'I ola m that the march l eT l° n n J\ ha 3 iust, '- fied aU l hiive said Sg the last ave or six years. To mo it seems ~that there are only three,possible courses open: 1. To abolish the Navy and the Army, and take the consequences. ,r J'Jl l°i dOp j in ' motli l at< >ly defensive ircnsnr« tJTtil ?ac 1 e fttUW ' h ° Ger- ' "fight it out iP ' h6 Whole Em ? iro {or r, and to '