ENGLAND HUMILIATED BY GERMANY.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 86, 24 January 1885, Page 6

ENGLAND HUMILIATED BY GERMANY.

New Yokk, December 14.— A cable special from London of Decembor 13th says : The latest Gorman Blue Book, bound in white by way of novelty, has been the sensation of the week. It shows that German colonisation in Africa has been virtually due to England's hauteur and her posing as the natural protector and proprietor of all newly discovered countries. Bismarck demonstrates that if England had agreed [to his first modest requests that Gorman tradors bo protected in the interior, ovor which England claimod sovereignty, he would havo been satisfied. When England established such discriminative laws as practically to keep her colonial markets to herself, Germany thought it was time to take a hand in the gamo, and sho did so. Tlioso statements have producod many bittor comments from the English papers. The morning journals are full of them to-day, and their echoos are heard in the evening papers. The "St. James Gazette" states that on the 4th of February, 1883, Bismarck asked Lord Granville whether the British Foreign Office would protect German traders in the Anglo- African settlements. Eightcon months afterward England begged German protection for Englishmen in Africa. The article concludos as follows: "So closes, for the present, this ignominious chapter of our colonial hi& to ry. Tho rebuff, although galling to our pride, prejudicial to our prcstigo, and fatal to many of our intorcsts, is thoroughly deserved. Tho German Chancellor treated us with frankness, and even forbearance Evorything which wo havo to deplore is due to Granville's procrastination and indecision, which is now chronic." The " Pall Mall Gazette " which is now beyond dispute the leading Radical journal of England, is equally bitter. It says :— "England has been disgraced and snubbed before the world. What makes it worse is that the snubbing has been richly deserved. Granville's diplomacy, unless we learn in time by bitter experience, will bring troubles compared with which this rebuke, although sufficiently gross and humilating, will appear as the merest scratch."