THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1902. ENGLAND AND GERMANY.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 152, 14 January 1902, Page 2

THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1902. ENGLAND AND GERMANY.

Within the last week the situation between England and Germany bad been distinctly strained, and a few- more indiscreet utterances on either side of the Channel might have provoked a serious rupture in the relations of the two countries. The whole trouble, of course, commenced when Mr Chamberlain, in his Edinburgh speech, declared that England had done nothing worse in the South African War than Germany in the war of 1870. This, it would be thought, was a sufficiently mild statement on the matter, but knowing, a 3 they must do, the measures adopted in the Franco-Prussian War, the Germans still did not care to be reminded of them, and an indignant clamour was raised by a section of the Press and a large mass of the Anglophobes (or British-hating) public. In this outcry there is littla doubt that the agents of- the defunct Boer republics took an active part,Taut their time has gone past, and whatever success a similar situation might have yielded them two years ago, they can now have little, -if any, hope of foreign intervention. There are many other things to be considered beside a sentimental consideration for a kindred race, and while the Kaiser and his advisors stood-; firm and quietly, .feinted out that Mr Ohatilberlain's remarks were not really offensive when coolly considered—the agitation had time to die down. Meanwhile, however, France had seized the opportunity to try and back up England, in the hope that in the event of friendly relations between the two coun-

tries bsing broken that country would stand- side by side with France and Russia—thus the seizure of Alsace and Lorraine might be avenged. The air political was of course charged with all sorts of conflicting rumours, but a continuance of the situation opened up too many complications for the German public and gPress, and it was clearly seen that they must climb down. (The German Government, of course, had not identified itself with the popular clamour). Judicious hints were sent from high quarters that the wholesale abuse of England must cease, or that it would likely ultimate in a new and formidable coalition against Germany, and Germans were reminded that the most important part of their trade was with the British Empire, which it was impolitic to offend. 1 Touching the pocket is much the same with one nation as with another, and the end is peaces. Throughout all the blaster it. is satisfactory to see that Mr Gham-

berlain was firm and stilltipholda his utterances, and that if this he is upheld by the great English papers. Britishers throughout the Empire may feel -hat the war is getting wearisome, but it is going to be carried through fa the end, despite the.taunts o£ pro-Boers at Hoioe and abroad Meanwhile we are js ready to resent insults as ever we were.