BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 147, 18 December 1911, Page 5

BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

SOCIALISTS' PACIFIC PROPAGANDA. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright, Berlin, December 15. Herr Bebel, replying to the British Labor Party's pacific address to the Social Democrats of the Reichstag, declares his party will not leave a stone unturned at the elections to impress voters how war between Germany and Britain would destroy the work of decades of civilising effort and peaceful competition. LET BYGONES BE BYGONES. THE TIMES' OPINION. Received 17, 5.5 p.m. Berlin, December I<>. Although the newspapers are disposed to ''let bygones be bygones." and discuss the improvements in foreign relations, theft are many protests at the Government's concealment of facts. The Vossiche Zeitung state? the Government alight to reveal the facts, notably respecting the proposed privileged tone in Morocco, and France's rejection of the demand for Congo territory from the sea* to Sanga. The Times' Berlin correspondent censures the persistent manipulation of German opinion against France and still more against Britain by the official dissemination of its version of events, which are now proved to be absolutely untrue. The correspondent adds that as far as i» known, the system of press inspiration will continue in future as hitherto.