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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 616, 20 September 1909, Page 9

-Apropos of ; ambition on the seas, the". "■Berliner'.-. Zeitung" : has beon ' maldng\ it Quite,,plain to; us Ithat our claim .to naval supremacy is regarded by. .Teutonic Radicals aa anailront to their country. . One had been acoustomed to associate this view with Germans who dotest Badicalism, but tho ."Berliner Zci-tung^'-is-a-journal of, that political (school, and' it has ft l&rge circulation. "No country ia. the world,"."says this paper, "can concede to the British their claim to command taat part of.tho ocean ontaido their; own three-mile iono." It then c?Us tho eminent, jnrist Hugo Grotius to witness against us, but as ho exponndsd; his doctrine three hundred years ago it may perhaps be regarded, as hardly applicJ able, to- modern .'conditions. ; Then the "Berliner. Zoitunir" declares that "most European nations can only regard the British claim'to absolute naval 6unromacy as a sorious affront to 'themselves," and adds: "This absolute lack of ability to understand the rights of foreigners constitutes the permanent obstacle to: a reconciliation of tho British and German nations." 'Vet while our;diplomacy served Gon man pnrpoeea" in Bismarck's time, tho Germans were avowedly our best friends, in spito of our sea suprdmacy. And, perhaps,'a "reconciliation" which involved surrendor of our control of tho road to our shores Would be purchased top dearly. Wu may roasonablr prefer • nnroconcilcd Germans who cannot got into our. country , ' to "reconciled" Germans who can, ■ ' '■:' '■':■ ■:■{■:-: ''■■■ '■■ : .\ ''■'■■■',■■. _ Itoisrs. Abraham and Williams will hold a •tock tale at. JohnsonyiUi) to-morrow, ot U a.m. Mr. if. Ernest lioighton, atiotlonceV and citato agent, i Wellington, advertises in . this, issue nartluulars or throo Manawotu farm properties nnd Walltato landwliicli ho.has for sale" Tenders- aro inTited. for tho purohaeo of tho' goodwill, lease, stock, and fixtures of the buslnots of the lato I. F. Ludwig, jawcllor, of Ilastines Street, Niiplcr. . . Messrs. B- B.' Haro and Co., Pahlatua. have for sale a 1300-acro property. , . .' For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Ig, Bd., ii. Bd. I Adrti.