INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 34, 23 January 1912, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

GERMAN ASPIRATIONS IN WEST AFRICA. A PORTUGUESE PROPOSITION. 'By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, January 22. The Saturday Review declares that Sir E. Grey privately intimated that Britain would oppose Germany acquiring the Angola Country, West Africa, which Portugal is about to offer to German enterprise for a valuable consideration. ANGLO-G ERMAN COLONIAL INTERESTS. TO BE DISCUSSED. Berlin, January 22. Dr. Solfe is visiting London to discuss the Anglo-German colonial interests. • THE COMPETITION IN NAVAL CONSTRUCTION. GERMANY FORCES THE PACE. London, January 22. The Daily Telegraph’s forecast of the German naval shipbuilding indicates a recrudescence of rivalry in a more intense form, and states that Germany’s contemplated expenditure for 1911 and 1912 under the 1900 law has been doubled. She built, or is building, nino additional battleships, and has doubled her destroyer flotilla, and commenced, outside the provisions of the Navy Law, 24 submarines.