KING EDWARD AND THE KAISER

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 17 August 1907, Page 5

KING EDWARD AND THE KAISER

CORDIAL SPEECHES. Received Itith. Ifl.ti p.m. Berlin, August lt>. The Kaiser delivered a warm speech when welcoming King Edward at a banquet at Wilhelmshoe. King Edward, responding, said: ''Your Majesty knows it is my great e.-t wish that only the liestand pieas.uiiest relations should exist between our two nations. lam delighted that your Majesties will soon visit me in K.igiaml, and I am firmly convinced that besides my family, the entire people will receive your Majesties with tlie greatest joy." The newspaper Kolmsche Zeitung interprets a long conversation between ' Prince Von Bulow and Sir C. Hardinge, as a fresh step in the common work of j two great nations' cause—peace. |

GERMAN NEWSPAPERS GRATIFIED. Received 1G1h,.10.6 j>.m. Berlin, August IG. German newspapers of all sliades are gratified at the cordiality of the Kaiser's and King Edward's toasts ai the banquet, and the fact that King Edward •poke in German. THE BALKANS SETTLEMENT. Received 10th, 10.6 p.m. Vienna. August 16. Emperor Francis Joseph and several of the Imperial family welcomed Ki.ig Edward at Ischl, and give a lun.houu at the Imperial villa. The official communique regarding the conversation of upwards of an hour between Baron Aerenthal, Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Sir C. Hardingc, declare that ail questions of current polities were touched upon. Kuth recognised that reforms introduced in Macedonia by the entente Powers, with other Powers in support, are in full apri'rment with Britain's latest declarations. Similar agreement of views was apparent regarding the impending proposal j to the Porte, and the method of dealing with Macedonian bands. As the attitude of other Powers is in full aeroril with Uritain's and Austria's views, the horoscope is favorable to the success of disinterested endeavors to introduce serious and lasting improvement into ".be vilayets I