BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1390, 16 March 1912, Page 14

BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

Speaking at a Diocesan Conference, the Bishop of Winchester said people knew how near they carao last year to the horrible and literally unimaginable catastrophe of, a war with Germany. Must they eit merely passive and silent, ho asked, while Governments and Ministers dealt with tho movements- of the "great game" until somn day/they found that, for eomo cause which tho general, public very imperfectly understood, the curse of war was on them ? Surely not. Surely thev knew that whilo wars were made on incidents, it was not incidents which really decided, font tho temper of the nations concerned and their general relations to one another. Tho relations of tho two great Powers ought to be such as to make it impossible to uso tho dreadful arbitrament of war. They wero told that even friendly Germans believed England desired and meant to make war on Germany.. The head and heart of England revolted' against a thing so horrible and fratricidal. Ho was confident that tho nation found its main delight in the oiil-ente with Trance just because it was an entonte, and not. because it was a pieceof international politics. The whole heart of the country would go out to meet the prospect of a genuine entente with Germany. They must determine that tho colossal crime itnd catastrophe of war should not come. Such a thing must not be. To tho "practically inevitable" of snms on both sides of the water let them make the strong reply, ."morally, impossible."