PEACE OF EUROPE

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1012, 30 December 1910, Page 6

PEACE OF EUROPE

- —: —i —s— : —: —r ■ . ■ GERMAN GENERAL ON AEROPLANE! -' .. - AND CONSCRIPTION. The. "Matin," of Paris, last / month , published a long interview which its.Ber-, lin correspondent had had with" General Keim, ex-president of-the German' Navy League. \ ; ■' 1 ' • Speaking of the internal. situation in Germany,. the General, admitted that, as ; in France,. there was a "home peril' 'to be faced, but declared.that, whatever that peril might be they, would- never-, haya . recourse .to war .-to ...deliver themselves • frorti : it. "" '"'r ; i- : ' : . As- to external affairs, the horizon was . lowering in the'Balkans. ' To prevent a. conflict between Russian' and; Austria, •' arid in the' interests', of .general -peace,, Germany would endeavour to make , tlio _ Austro-Russiaii entente - real, 'and would ' afterwards seek- to bring about an' under-* standing between' Austria and Italy. ■ . -. Looking at things from the : military;. standpoint, the German Empire, liio -France, was increasing and perfecting its ■ armaments. In 1911 France would have about 400 aeroplanes, and .Germany, would,, have Jo hasten in' order to overtake such a lead. Laws would have to be mads, forbidding flights across the frontiers; General Keim expressed 'his belief, ia., the triumph of the aeroplane over ths , dirigible, pointing out that the Ivrugp guns could easily demolish the latter. - The question of' compulsory service in: England was then broached. "It' impossibility," said the General. The'English have plenty ofother things', to do with their Irishmen,' their colliery troubles., and the ■ mutterings "in-Egypt and India." ■ , - . , Speaking'of Persia, General Keim said; . "Now I ask. you to teH me what tKa Russians and the English , are. doing .there. Can't they leaye; the Persians;in '"in'"conclusion the General leverted to-. English compulsory service, and, ' speaking slowly," as the "Matin" correspond-; ent says," made the mysterious 1 remark; that "it would, above all. assist > Franca in a struggle which might take -placo elsewhere 'than in Persia."—"Central 1 News." '■ ' - " • ■