"KRANKHEIT."

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12827, 11 June 1907, Page 6

"KRANKHEIT."

There must really he some gravefaced and malicious humourists among those who are engaged in irritating the Anglophobe centres of the Teutonic nervous system (says the "Pall Alall Gaeette"). The network of intrigue with which King Edward has enmcshod tho whole of Southern Europe is now discerned by the piercing eye of tho German journalist as extending so* far as tho coast of Holland. Tho Dutch correspondent of a Rhinoland newspaper reports a whole series of Alachiavellian steps recently taken in that quarter. (1) Prinoo Henry received tho Order of th© Bath after playing so credible a part in the rescuo of tho Berlin survivors. (2) The British Minister kicked off at a football match "in the presence of a number of Dutch authorities." (3) The same official attended the South African Exhibition and made "many flattering remarks about the Dutch" (whereas a strict regard for international propriety would presumably havo led Jiim to invent somo caustic insults for tJie occasion). (1) The Duckets of Albany lias paid a visit to tho Queen-Dowager of Holland ■— a political proceeding which is ill disguised by tho preposferous excuse that the two ladies happen to be sisters. Those proofs are held sufficient, as Tho Hague correspondent of tho "Telegraph" informs us, to establish tho dangerous prevalence of "Englischo K-ankhcifc" in Dutch circles.