AS OTHERS SEE US.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 184, 6 August 1898, Page 4 (Supplement)

AS OTHERS SEE US.

Continental nations still hold strange opinions about the wily devices of perfidious Albion. I hear from a visitor just returned from Meta that at a dinner parly there a number of German officers were earnestly vehement in maintaining that the Italian bread riots had been caused solely by English money with a view to breaking up the Triple Alliance in order that England might gain Germany as an ally for herself! Now tht special correspondent of the 'Matin,* who visited Gibraltar with the express object of finding out why Mr Goschen went there, writes that he has learneel from one of the Spanish workmen employed in the fortress that the' English, are constructing an tminerisei tunnel under the narrow strip of KM separating the Bay of Algeeiras from the Mediterranean. The tunnel starts from just beyond Linea. at the extreme end of the Bay of Gibraltar and is cleverly masked,'and at each end powerful batteries have been erected, commanding the whole of the bay on the one side and the Mediterranean on the other. It was in order to see how this gigantic enterprise is proceeding that Mr Goschen went to Gibraltar.

How can one argue seriously with people who entertain gravely such ridiculous ideas?