Britain & Germany

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 187, 6 February 1914, Page 5

Britain & Germany

ON GOOD TERMS. BUT TAKING NO HOLIDAYS. liy Cable—Press Association—Copyright Berlin, February 4. Admiral Tcrpiu, speaking in the Reichstag, said Britain's ratio of 1(1 to 10 was 'still acceptable, but a nav.il I holiday was not realisable. Any positive proposals would, however, assuredly be examined in a spirit, of goodwill. Heir Jagow said the relations of the British and German Cabinets were in every way marked by mutual confidence. THE RAPPROACIIMEN'T WELCOMED. Received .;, 11.35 p.m. Berlin, February 5. Herr Jagow declares that conviction is growing that Anglo-German interests coincided, and that it is possible to work together on many points. Negotiations are proceeding to avert antagonism in spheres of colonial interest, and he is hopeful of a satisfactory issue, lie asserted the maintenance of German ships in the Mediterranean depended upon political developments. Herr Terpitz laid stress upon the heavy naval increases in the Russian Baltic fleet. Germany does not intend to increase her fleet beyond the limits of Navy Ijuv. Other speakers on all sides welcomed the rapproachment, but opined an agreement for the limitation of armaments was impracticable.