KAISER'S WARLIKE SPEECH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9118, 18 June 1908, Page 5

KAISER'S WARLIKE SPEECH.

GERMAN GOVERNMENT'S DISCLAIMER. Received June 17, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, June 16. The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" has been authorised to state that the German Government sees in the cordiality of the meeting between King Edward and the Czar at Reval neither a change in the political situation nor cause of umbrage. The correspondent adds that the Kaiser's speech ha» nevertheless had a disquieting effect, and is respons ible for a nervous tone on the Bourse.

IN DIRECT CONTRADICTION TO FOREIGN POLICY. Received June 17, 8.58 a.m. BERLIN, June 16. The "Berliner Tagcblatt" says the Kaiser's words are in direct contradiction to Germany's actual foreign policy. PRINCE VON BULOW INTER- • VIEWED. Received Jur.o 17, 10.35 p.m. BERLIN, June 17. Prince von Bulow, in an interview, declared that the situation was reassuring. Neither the French nor British wished to attack Germany. The Kaiser and King Edward were on excellent terms. The Kaiser and the Czar had met eight times in eleven years. The circling of Germany was a mere phrase. The German policy had hitherto been undisturbed by the understandings arrived at all round.

A cablegram published yesterday -'..ited that the "Dortmund Zeitung" reported that the Kaiser, after in-sp-.-cting cavalry troops at Doeberitz. lemarked: ■—"It looks as if they are trying to encircle and bring us to bay; but we can bear that. A German never fought better than when defen ling himself on all sides. Let them all come on ! We are ready."