SPEECH BY PRINCE VON BUELOW.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3765, 4 May 1907, Page 3

SPEECH BY PRINCE VON BUELOW.

Berlin, May 1. Prince von Buelow, the Imperial Chancellor, in a pre-eminently peaceful speech commenting in the Reichstag on the European out Ibok, said Germany would attend The Hague Conference, but would leave it to others, who were sanguine that the discussion of limitation of armaments would prove successful, to conduct it alone. If a practical scheme was evolved, Germany would conscientiously consider it. Prince Von Buelow remarked that every time the Kaiser journeyed to the Mediterranean he had visited the King of Italy. It was quite natural for King Edward to do the same when touring the Italian coast. The friendly relations of England with Italy were advantageous and desirable, and Germany had no arriere pensee. In Persia the Anglo-Russian rapprochement was an attempt to settle old disputes. In Moroccco, Germany only desired equal commercial opportunities. There were no controversies between Germanyand England which could interfere with the friendly efforts of the sensible sections of both nations. “ Let us cultivate friendships and alliances,” added the Chancellor, ‘ ‘ and not be anxious respecting ententes upon matters which do not immediately effect us. Grant others the freedom of movement we claim for ourselves. ’ ’ ■ The speech has had a reasurriug effect throughout Europe. Some importance is attached in certain circles in Germany to the present visit to Berlin of Baron Alois von Aehrenthal, Austrian Minister for Foreign affairs. The “Neue Freie Presse” states that the good relations existing between Austria-Hungary and Britain and France should enable, under certain circumstances, a mitigation of the all too sharp divergence between those Powers and Germany.