GERMANY AND BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 10, 13 January 1902, Page 3

GERMANY AND BRITAIN.

FEB PRWB' ASSOCIATION. London, January 10. The Barlin newspapers are exultant over Count von Botox's firm rebuke of Mr. Chamberlain. Even the paiGerman party are satufied. yiLIJTIUG THB BRITISH ABUT. CKNSURK ON A BABID ANTI-BBMITE. ooust'bdlow'S B7KBGH.

Received 12, 6.4. p.m. Berldt, January 11. The Piesidentof the Reichstag censured Berr liebermann, representative of Souneberg, and an anti-Semite, for describing Sir Chamberlain as toe moat- accnwed acoundrel on God's earth, and the instigator of the wicked war; atd also deaciibing the British , Aimy as a pack of thieves. Count Balow, concurring in the ' President's censure, deprecated the tendency to vilify foreign Ministers, and deeply V-«tgretted the attack on the British Army. Germans, he said, were sensitive of the honour of their own army, and ought not to abase an army wherein were men ready enough and knowing how to die. Germany did not intend to be diverted from ber policy of neutrality with regard to South in her friendly relations with Britain, whereto Germany was bound by permanent weighty interests. The taskwas not rendered easier by the incident latterly discussed and he hoped such incidents would not rtcur, rendering it mors difficult to maintain an attitude of harmony. Germw and English interests Were alike promoted , by the peace of the worLl. Count Billow's speech was greeted with cheers. COMMENTS BY THB BNGLIBH PBKS. ; Londoh, January 11. The Times and Standard make vehement protests against Count Billow's differentiating between Mr. Chamberlain and the country, and also for his failure to repudiate the known calumnies against the British Army. The feeling of estrangement from Germany is widening. Tbvtimcs says that Count Bulow s mild rebuke of Herr Liebermaon was quite insufficient and that he ought to publish the reports of tbe military attaches and officials in South Africa showing that British soldiers were as human and generoos ss they were fearless. The limit of British patience would be overstepped if Count Bulow imagined himself able to court Britiab . friendship while simultaneoudy wiping parliamentary feet on the British uniform. The diary of a German pro-Boer residing at Pretoria hasten published, it describes the conduct of the Bri'iah soldiers as eimply exemplaiy, snd the stories of their alleged atrocities as lies uttered with an object.