THE GERMAN SPECTRE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 266, 20 March 1911, Page 3

THE GERMAN SPECTRE

NO USE' TBYIXU TO EXORCISE IT. MB. STEAD SAYS IT WILL XOT BE PUT DOWN. London, March 10. Mr. W. T. Stead, in one of his latest articles, expresses the belief that it is of ■o use trying to exorcise the Herman spectre; it will not be put down. "The publication of the German census figures," Mr. Stead goes on to say, "has'given a new head to the spectre. The great problem that troubles the Old World to-day is the rise of Germany to a position of domination on the Con tin-' cut greater than that enjoyed by anyother Power since Xapoleon. "The British Empire alone remains as an independent unit, whose counsels are not dominated bv the,shadow* of German swords. ■ "But England, despite the entente with France and Kitssia, is powerless from a military point of view. Her domination is becoming more and more limited to the sovereignty of the seas, but that sovereignty has been diligently undermined for the past ten years/ and the menacing shadow that .stretches across a narrow wea Mils the minds of Britons with undisguised uneasiness." STUAIXKU lIELATIOXS. A GF.RMAX PIUIKESSOR'S VIEW. San Francisco, March 10, .Mr. Dacnell, of Kiel Universitv, who is one of the professors exchanged between Germany and the United 'stales, during the course of a lecture to the undergraduates of California University declared that the relations between Great Britain and Germany were exceedingly strained. ' The professor added that the situation was so serious that an outbreak of war between the two nations would not surprise hun. lie attributed the unsatisfactory condition of allairs in the main to the rivalry between Great Britain and Germany in the development of their respective over-en possessions, and the efforts that are being made by both to extend their commerce ami secure new markets. After quoting figures to show the enormoii, amount of capital behind British enterprises in foreign lands Prolessor Daenell said that Great Britain's policy was not to permit her toes to be trodden on in any part of the world lie added that lie believed Great l!rilain would have declared war against Knssia it Japan had not stepped'in to i.ispute hussars advance in the Orient. 11( ' Indicted that Turkey would be the next bone of contention.