The Daily News. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25. ANGLO-GERMAN FEELING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 324, 25 February 1910, Page 4

The Daily News. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25. ANGLO-GERMAN FEELING.

Contrary tfo what we have been led to believe by Home writers as well as by Jingo "politicians of our own country, the comments ot the German jiewspapers on the recent British elections did not suggest anv spirit of unfriendliness towards Great Britain. The Berliner Tageblatt remarked that the while world would be interested in ihe great constitutional struggle that was .taking place in the "home of dcAnocracy." It was true that the sympathies of the friends of freedom in Germany would go with the side which •was fighting for the rights of the people, but this attitude was not affected by the relations between the two countries. "If even the Conservatives in Germany," it went on to say, ''are .of opinion that the desired Anglo-Ger-understanding would be more easily and sooner realised with a Liberal rather than a Conservative Cabinet in power, that does not mean that we do not hope to come to an arrangement with an England ruled by the Tories, .pnee the Tories have assumed the cares of office and the noise of the election has died away, they, too, will soon per.ceive that the establishment of satisfactory relations between the two great ■peoples, who are each other's best customers, is the noblest of mutual interests." Nearly all the Berlin newspapers published at the end of December a communication from a Pross agency, the '•'Deutech-Asiatische Korr»?.pondenz," in regard to negotiations between Britain and Germany for an agreement on naval questions. The agency stated that when Prince Bu'.ow ceased to direct the foreign policy of his country the discussion between t''-e two Governments had already passed the state of pourparlers, and had "entered .upon the positive phase of drafting a .^text/ 1 Britain's policy in the Middle East, it was claimed, had been modified to meet German views in consequence .ot her quite friendly negotiations. The statement is interesting if only as an indication of the trend o? popular feeling in Germany, where there is another political war party at work trying to make the people believe that war between the two great nations is inevitable.