THE KAISER’S LETTER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2135, 10 March 1908, Page 3

THE KAISER’S LETTER.

COMMENT IN GERMANY. United Press Association—Copyright (Received March 10, 0.30 a.m.) BERLIN, March 9. Mr. Asquith’s statement dealing with tho Kaiser’s letter incident has reached official circles in Berlin. Newspaper comments thereon partly attempt to minimise the letter, but tho “Berliner Tageblatt,” recalling tho Kaiser’s famous telegram to Kruger, during the .Boer war, and other incidents, argues that vigilance ought to have been exercised, but apparently Prince Buelow, like others, was taken by surprise. “REPLY TO ALARMIST VIEWS.” (Received March 10, 0.39 a.m.) LONDON, March 9. Tho Standard’s Berlin correspondent reports, as the result of an informal exchange of views between the British and German Governments, tho mutual conviction is recorded that tho incident ought not in any exercise an unfavorable influence upon Anglo-German relations. Iho Standard adds: “The Kaiser’s letter was a general -reply to alarmist views of parliamentary and other utterances and articles .in British reviews, newspaper attacks on either side bcing a secondary feature.” Tho Morning Post’s Berlin correspondent says tho leading newspapers express great satisfaction at the general attitude of the English press.