ANGLO-GERMAN RELATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1587, 2 November 1912, Page 5

ANGLO-GERMAN RELATIONS.

LORD ROBERTS THANKED FOR- HIS ; ', SPEECH, ..' ■ Ur Tel.e'Bra.plL-,Presß London, .October.3l, A letter has been 6igned'by v lbs/Union-. Ist members.of Parliament thanking Lord for his recent stirring and oon.- : vinbing speech at Manchester on Britain's unpre.paredness for war with Germany. The letter does not mention-the-recent, criticisms of Lord' Roberts's ■ speech, but hopes that his patriotic campaign'will, be.crowned with an. early result,.. Lord Roberts, ..in presiding. at a Na-'. tiohal gervico League ..demonstration at Manchester last week, delivered.a speech.'' . in., which he declared that, as in 186(i .and--1870, war might occiir in. an instant.. Ths forces of Germany had ■ superiority, ■at every .point, and Great Britain had-lost. command' of every sea except the Nbrtlr Sea, where her supremacy. \vas.;: disputed, .and where Germany had always.advanced;: The. speech aroused muesli conimorit, and a number of.Liberal members'.of Pai-lia'' ment,. including .Sir Arthur. Markham ' (Mansfield Division of Notts), Mr. Noel. Buxton (North Norfolk), R«v. Silvestet Horne (Ipswich), Sir. William Byles. (North Division of Salford), Mr, 1 -.Philip 1 Moorell (Burniey), Sir Albert Spicer (Hackney Central), oiad: Mr, J.. A./.M. ■ Macdohald (Falkirk Burghs), signed a protest against it. , Tho protest expressed entire disbelief in Germany's warlike intentions, and deplores the bitterness that such statements cause.