BERLIN SENSATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3087, 8 January 1909, Page 5

BERLIN SENSATION.

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright,

GERMANY'S MILITARY ISOLATION.

SPEECH BY THE KAISER

"BRITAIN AN UNFORGIVING ENEMY."

Received January 7, 8.5 a.m. BERLIN, January 6. A sensation has been caused in Berlin by the German newspapers announcing that the Kaiser entertained his generals at. dinner on Sunday, and read to them—expressing his cordial approval—an article in the "Deutsche Revue" on war at the present day. The Kaisfcr attributed the article to Cuunt Schlieffan, formerly Chief of the General Staff. Tne article discusses the military isolation andhemming-in of Germany and Austria, and next emphasises the destructiveness of modern fire, rendering speedy tactics essential to a nation's existence. Referring to political aspects, it mentions that Germany's commercial and industrial progress has made Britain an unforgiving enemy. Technical reasons are adduced to show that the danger of a joint attack .on Germany and-Austria is less real than might be supposed, owing to the fear ot any assailant that remoter allies might arrive too late; yet the existence of a combination permanently menaces and automatically affects German nerves.

THE IMPERIAL APPROVAL. ON MILITARY OR POLITICAL GROUNDS? Received January 7, 8.15 a.m. LONDON, January 6. The Berlin correspondent of "The limes" says.that high approval of the article in the "Deutsche Revue" has not yet been officially denied, but it is permissible to doubt whether that approval extended to political speculations.