THE EUROPEAN CLOUD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 76, 20 September 1911, Page 5

THE EUROPEAN CLOUD

THE GERMAN REJOINDER. PROVOKES FRENCH IRRITATION. "EXTORTIONATE GERMANY AND ANGRY FRANCE." Received 19, 111 p.m. Paris, September 19. 11. Cambon, the French Ambassador, has received the German rejoinder. Le Temps says there is an impression that the reply will cause Ircsh French counter proposals. The paper adds that by provoking public irritation, Germany was incurring grave responsibilities. Her persistence and equivocation might lead to something worse than financial ruin in Berlin, and remove the possibility of an agreement between extortionate Germany and angry France.

ENGLAND'S LOSS. GERMAN VIEW OF WAR SEQUEL. Berlin, July 30. Count Reventlow writes an 'article in the Tageszeitung to show that war with Germany would mean for England the loss of her naval supremacy, since the destruction of a large part of her fleet would be inevitable. America, Russia and Japan would straightway attack her, and India and Egypt would rise in revolt, while the self-governing colonics would probably be obliged to secede. The article is interesting as showing that, in the opinion of influential publicists such as Count Reventhlow, the state of things described in the preamble of the Navy Bill as the aim of German naval policy has already been reached—namely, that even the greatest sea Power should be able to attack Germany without risking her own position as a world Power.