GERMAN MOTIVES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 730, 1 February 1910, Page 5

GERMAN MOTIVES.

NOT TERRITORY BUT PEACEFUL ■ ..; y:\ trade.-.'■-. -.-• ~••■■. . : .. NO DESIRE K)E SUPEEMACY OF .. .;. ; : the seas. .:-■■' : By Telerrrapb-Press Assoclatlon-Oopjrleht . (Eec. January 31, 9.20 p.m.) .. London, January 81. The German societies of London joined last nigh^ : in holding a dinner in honour of the German Emperor's 51st birthday. , The' German Ambassador, Count: P. Wolff-Metternich, who! presided, declared that, the/ Germans were a< .peace-loving race..' They were without further thought of war for tho attaining of national aims; they had no longing eyes for further ter-' ritory. for settling a 6urplua population; emigration : had declined -to insignificant figure;, and as their employment at ■ home, they therefore depended to a large extent upon exports. No market was gained by brute "force, but the peaceful conquest of trade was accomplished by intellectual industry, skill, and knowledge. ....■ ~ . ;'.■■'■ '. .'.;

.."The.Ambassador, added 'that for' the ; protection of her great and growing commercial .interests, .Germany was. building a'fleets in; imitation of>: other nations. The "Germans had no .wish to rule the seas,;and,threatened nobody.■•,'Sinco. they were without an intention of competing for. the; supremacy of ithe seas, it was unreasonable.-. to suppose that they sought to: become involved in a naval quarrel .

' : [It is .diiEcb.lt : to reconcile the, Ambassador's renunciation of/ a German, supremacy of the sea' with the famous utterance 1 of. the ICaiserT-"the Trident must be in'our fist."] :".f"---:■,'"."■":- 7 '' •..:'-'

■A: SIDE-LIGHT ON THE GERMAN ;.-.:''.;:;-'";;':: : - i ;..\-.'CHARACTEH;'.; ' ..-.'- .;■. , ■';-;THE PLACED ABOVE - ; .■ , EEMAEK.Ei3SENTED;AS AN. INSULT. ,';:,;': :j(Eec.' January'3l, 10 p.m.) ■'~".'• •;; '.V'.: J': 1 .;. ■".] ''.'\ /''Berlin, , January 31. :While ,the •Reichstag was';discussing tho . military,estimates,' Von Oldenburg, an escayalry. .officer,:'in - .deprecating -public' .discussion':'.;of: army.:, details 'as. ;being inimical; to discipline, raised a storm by ;remarking: , :".\\'.''r',V;' : '- ■■■": '■'.':- ! ■■::■• ":- •■' ; ";' ... ■: /:;"The. Eaiser; must ■Iμ. able to Bayito any. lieutenant •.".'Take ten men and shut up.'the Eeichstag.f" y ; ' ; .-; . ;, . ; /. The of the Eeichstag, in' replying:tp; Socialist; protests, ■interpreted the. remark, , as,.implying that: a soldier, must";obey to ', the-;uttermost 'the,' War--Lord'a..cpmmand./;;;.; :V,; ; v'V'V ; ■' > .; v. Von Oldenburg .-assented' to'" this '. inter?' pretation ( of ;his remark,; .but Deputies of seyeral: parties' contended that thelEeichitag had been .insulted.,! ■■;.;;'■'"'..;;;".