GERMANY AND ENGLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 170, 24 January 1912, Page 7

GERMANY AND ENGLAND.

MORE WARSHIPS FOR GERMANY. £3,000,000 A YEAR MORE TO BE SPENT. Berlin, December 1. The campaign for a larger navy for, Germany is going ahead, special emphasis being laid on the changes which have been made in the British Admiralty. Germany must be strong, even stronger, is the text of many articles appearing in the newspapers. "Everything depends on being ready," says the Post. The new naval programme, according to the Neue Preussische Corresponded, will include an extra expenditure of £lB,000,000, to cover a period of six years, £3,000,000 to be spent annually, for the strengthening of the fleet. The Reichstag debate on the Morocco agreement will take place on Tuesday, and the Imperial Chancellor, Dr. von Bethmann Holhveg and the Foreign Sinister, Herr von Kiderlin-Waechter, will reply to Sir Edward Grey. AH the party leaders will take part in the debate, and Germany's attitude towards Great Britain will be more clearly outlined. THE ETERNAL ENGLISH! '" WHY GERMANS SAY THEY MUST BE STRONG TO FIGHT. SOME NEW RESOLVES. Hamburg, December 2. In an article entitled "England's Enmity," the Hamburger Nachrichten f 1 - clares that Sir Edward Grey's speech •• • longer leaves any doubt as to the meaning of the "entente cordiale" being i! • rected against Germany. This is the general feeling throughout the country and also abroad, says the journal, and the recent utterances of the German semi-official press serve to show that leading circles are not unconcerned as to the intentions of Great Britain. A very remarkable feature of Sir Edward Grey's speech was the absence of any direct reference to the warlike preparations which were being made during the Moroccan negotiations. The Hamburger-Nachrichten then goe9 on to show that the present unfortunate state of affairs between the two countries is to be attributed, in the first place, to England's jealousy of Germany, who is believed to threaten her most vital interests, and, in the second place, to the mismanagement of German politics ever since the dismissal of Prince Bismarck, which has caused others to look | on Germany with misgiving and to range themselves on the side of her opponents. But the most important consideration of all, adds the journal, is how Germany will maintain itself in its present position. The reply is simple. "First of all we must work with might and main to become as strong as we can possibly be, both on land and water. "Second, we must meet the English on any and every occasion so firmly and energetically that they may never dare hope to intimidate us. "Third, our whole diplomacy must strive to come to an understanding with ■Russia, which would offer us a sure support in the eventuality of war, for it is by no means certain that we could rely on either of our allies." If Germany had Russia's support, continues the journal, and war should be forced on her, she could throw herself on France with full force, and should she be victorious she could then cause this ally of the English to abandon England and to withdraw her fleet from the war. England's position would thus become far from desirable, apart from the enormous losses which her commerce would sustain. "As may be seen," concludes the Hamburg Nachrichten, "so many feasible means offer themselves to Germany as a protection against British hostility that we have no need to be seriously alarmed."

WARLIKE DISPOSITION OP GERMAN POPULATION. THE EMPEROR AN ADVOCATE FOR PEACE. A very old New Zealand colonist, ■ who claims the Fatherland as his birthplace, has just received a letter from his brother, who is high up in the Government service in Germany, and who has an intimate knowledge of the state of: public feeling with regard to Britain and of the political organisations in the country and their strength and objects. The Manawatu Standard has been permitted to make a few extracts from the letter, which have been' translated for the purposes of publication. The letter, which is dated December 6, states that at the time of the Morocco incident Germany was very muchJexcified. The whole population has an awiufdown on England's foreign policy. The attitude of the .British Government; in.! connection with the Morocco episode.has so embittered the German nation that almost to a man they were in faTor;,of war being declared' against Britain. The man who stopped the declaration of war was tyie German Emperor. The feeling finds universal acceptance throughout Germany that Great Britain is jealous of Germany's rapidly increasing 'trade development. England is also said to be irritated at the recent abnormally rapid expansion of the German navv. No one in Germany would be against England if she would not use her great influence against Germany. If England would propound an open and honest policy Germany would be only too glad to enter into alliance with her. There is no doubt that England and Germany united could establish pea<ie for the whole world. "But," says the writer, England's foreign policy, as of old, has been always against a united Germany. You will have heard that England promised France 200,000 men at the time of the Moroccan embroglio and' advised France not to come to terms with Germany over Morocco. If these 200 - 000 men had gone to France they never would have returned to England as an army. But France was discreet enough not to accept England's advice in that matter.

The Socialists will yet become a powerful factor in German affairs. Their great aim will be to break up the Ultramontane and Central Party, which is opposed to all andvancement: "There is no nation in which air navigation is developing so rapirlv as in German. The Zeppelin and Parseval airships make their trips from citv to city with the speed and regularity of express trains. No one now expresses any surprise at seeing airships passing over the towns, Such being a daily occurrence. They sweep down to' the towns, disembark or take on board their passengers, and rise over the hills and resume their voyages through the air The aeroplanes are not perfect yet' Much money will have to be spent "and many hves will probably be lost before the practical utilisation of the aeropTans is an accomplished fact', but the time will come when they will be g reat ]* improved and will find their way into general use as passenger carriers."