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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7743, 20 February 1905, Page 2

"Ignotus," writing in tho National Hcview, strongly GERMANY AND urges the neces- . ENGLAND, sityj for Britain making counterpreparations to 1 ineef thoso being made by Germany, which ho believes " intends to make war upon us between 1908 and 1912." Provident preparation, he goes to say, is in the end the wisest economy. Nor ought the country l>e lulled to rest by the opiates which the German Embassy and the German pnfcs agents In London -are perpetually administering. It cannot be too Widely known that, this Embassy attempts to influence the policy of certain British journals and journalists by giving them " inside " information, the un- ' dersianding being 'that in return they are to minimise the German preparations and to represent Germany as anxious to be the friend of the country. It need scarcely be said that those who are being thus used are usually quite unaware of the mischijef which they are working. The 'Dimes did good service when in a recent article it drew attention to these occult machinations. At least one Urittsh journal, whioh shall be i nameless', is controlled by German capital, as might, indeed, be guessed fi'Ollt its, policy, and though its influence is insSgnlficunt, it is always a source of danger. Students of histoi'.v cafinot ignore the fact that on the eve of thp Franco-German war Hivniaick utiMseci a certa;in section of the French press to injure France. The Englishman can judge by facts as to the true intentions of Gernmnv. We have : Jj. The telegram of the Kaiser to President Kruger, sent in 1896. after consultation with his Ministers, and followed by an unsuccessful attempt, afterwards avowed by Count Billow in the Heichsfag.. to form a European coalition against England. 2. The campaign of insult against England and Queen Victoria during the Boer war, secretly fanned by the German Government. 3 Tinwording rf the Naval Act of 1900 that Germany needed a fleet equal to the task of meeting the mightiest naval Power, 4. The Anglo-German agreement of 1900, by which Germany and England guaranteed the integrity of the Chinese Empire. When llritish Mirjslers and British press had been manoeuvred Into stating that this treaty covered Man. rhiirin. the German official organs instantily repudiated (his construction, and Count Uulow took the opportunity of stating in the Heiclistnff, ■" The Anglo-German agreement has no reference to Manchuria." This was a curtous piece of diplomatic treachery. 5. The German intriguing at I'ekin against the British treaty witli TibeF, the' rc a l object of which is probably to force I to .surrender Wei-hai-wei to Germany, to embarrass llritish policy, and to curry favour with Hus-I sia. Jf, after these facts', English- ' men can be found to believe that I Germany ,s anything but the bitter enemy of England, they must be very simple persons indeed,