THE KAISER AND THE GENERALS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11394, 3 October 1902, Page 5

THE KAISER AND THE GENERALS.

THE QUESTION OF AN AUDIENCE.

GREAT BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE.

(Received October 2nd, 10.36 p.m.)

BERLIN, October 2. It is understood in diplomatic circles in Berlin that Great Britain -will not object to <the Kaiser giving an audience to the Gtmerale, but Great Britain will decline to officially .recognise the visit, lest such action is interpreted as a ratification c/ the statements contained in the manifesto. The Kaiser in ■such case would refuse an audience. LONDON, October 2. Retrter's Agency in Berlin states that official circle* express regret that the proposed audience should bare given umbrage to Great Britain. It. was, and is, hoped thai the audience, if sought, would be granted through the usual diplomatic channel, and that it would tend to dissipate some misunderstandings between Germany and Britain, and would not be injurioue, ■bufc rather favourable, to Great Britain's interests. PARIS, October 2. "Figaro," commenting on the proposed audience, says: "Th!e cordiality between Great Brit-aim and Germany is a frail structure. DoubUese matters will be patched up, ■but -what a email tiling the friendship of Germany ia." ENGLISH REGRET AT THE MANIFESTO. LONfIDON, October 2. The chief soreness felt in Great Britain ovex the manifesto is that the Generals did not take the nation frankly into their confidence. Thus (feeling is embodied in a remark by "The Times" that if they had submitted to the British people a plain statement of their wants, supported by adequate evidence, and giving guarantee that the funds supplied would sot be misapplied to undermine -what had been achieved, the charity which is never refused to Continental nations would assuredly sot be withheld from those irre- , vooabiy incorporated in the Empire.

THE EMPBROB OF AUSTRIA.

The Vienna correspondent of "The Times* says ibo Emperor Francis, a soldier in heart and sonl, never manifested an inclination to see the Generals. ' The Emperor is Great Britain's best and safest friend on the Continent. The correspondeofc adds that $b is noteworthy also that Anglophobia hi Austria and Hungary has all but disappeared.