THE KAISER'S THREAT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9042, 29 January 1908, Page 5

THE KAISER'S THREAT.

ReceiveJ January 28, 8.30 a.m. * PARIS, January 27. It is reported in Paris that in June, 1905, the Kaiser informed Signor Tittoni, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, that German troops would enter Lorraine if M. D2lcasse —the Foreign Minister in the French Cabinet —succeeded in negotiating an offensive and defensive alliance with Britain. Signor Tittoni informed M. Barrere, the French Ambassador in Rome, who cabled to M. Rouvier, the French Premier. M. Rouvier thereupon demanded M.. Delcasse's immediate retirement, reproaching him for not communicating the negotiations to his" colleagues. (A cablegram published on Monday relating to a debate on the Moroc : can situation in the French Chamber of Deputies, stated that a great feature of the debate was the dramatic, intervuition. of M. Delcasse, in justification of his policy. He made a stirring protest against the hesitations and timidities prompting M. Jaures and his followers to demand the abandonment of the European mandate to T£orocco). WEDDING OFANhIiRESS. COSTLY PRESENTS. Received January 28. 11.47 p.m. NEW YORK, January 28. Three hundred people attended the wedding of Miss Gladys Vander il , daughter of Mr W. K. Vanderb-it, the American millionaire, and sister of the Duchess of Marlborough, and Count Laszio Szechenyi, at the Vanderbilt mansion. The weddine presents were valued at a quarter of a million sterling, and were kept under glass. The bride is the possessor of three millions in her own right.