THE POWERS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 262, 29 July 1908, Page 7

THE POWERS.

GREAT BRITAIN, TURKEY, ANB GERMANY. NO "ISOLATION." SPEECH BY SIR EDWARD GREY. (nl TELEGRAPH; —Fit ESS ASSOCIATION— COPYBIQnT.) : (Rec. July '28, 10.5 p.m.) ! ' A London, July 2^. ! In the House of. Commons the Foreign Oflico vote was agreed to. The Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Sir E. Gr6y), in welcoming tlio SifltanVproclamation of a Constitution, remarked that Britain's object in Macedonia has never been political. If tho Turks wore going to improve tho system of government in Turkey, that would benefit Moslems and Christians alike. The Macedonia question might bo dealt with in a better way than by partial reforms forced upon Turkey by the Powers. -, Replying to criticism, Sir E. Grey was cheered emphatically when he declared that it was very undesirable that arty section o£ opinion in Britain should represent British policy' as aiming at the isolaton of Germany. "It is," said the Minister, "no part of our policy to isolate any- Power." Regarding the Congo territory and Persia, Britain's,, national duty, he added, , was' watchfulness; MEETING AT REVAL. St. Petersburg, July' 27. Tho Tsar has gone to.Reval, where ho will meet M. Fallieres, President of the French Republic, to-day. , DUAL ALLIANCE. THE ALLIES FIRM FOR PEACE. (Rec. July 29, 0.25 aim.) A A ; St.' Petersburg, July 28. The Tsar and President Fallieres mot at Roval and re-affirmed that tho allies are firm in their desire to maintain and strengthen peace. _■ - '.. ■ . The earliest form of tho Franco-Russian Allianeo was n military convention, signed in. 1891, .whereby, it Wns stipulated that either nation shOiUd.Av'ith a specified forde, assist in iJepelling. an attack on the, other by, Germany. This convention was extended in' 1891,' and in 1897 became a dofinite alliance,' for defensive purposes only, wherein all special reference to Germany is dropped. ' A < GERMAN PRESS ALLEGATIONS. / Advices froin London, dated June 15, state:— The Gorman Press is oude again, sufforiiig from nil attack of- "nerves," brought on by the excited comments of certain-German .journals-on the meeting of tho King and the' Tsar, and by other demonstrations of Anglo-Russinii and An-glo-French good feeling. ,■ The visit of tho British floefc.,to Norway and Denmark is actually represented by a section of the;Gorman Press as a rehearsal of the possible landing of British tvoop3 on tho German: coast in conjunction with attacks by the French and .Russian forces. • ■■'.'/, . / -' 1 The political review, "Morge'n," says:—"All round wo are hedged in by alliances which actually deprive us of light and air. Britain has perfected a mutual plan of operations with France, upon whi6h British genorals liavO worked more zealously than French;' A FrancoRussian plan of operation has long existed, and was recently scrutinised by tho British War Office.,, Great Britain, Franco, and Russia have attained their object. Whether tlio world shall return- to reposo- depends upon/'uS,, although, for Germans, the world now resembles a lostparadise." i ' ■. ThO ,r ßheinischo Wesfaelische titling," - tlio organ of tho industrial interests, says:—"Britain wants war, Sho .only ivants'to cheokmatß Germany, in order to lame a troublesome rival. Gormany in any circumstances is strong.onough. even without her'allies, to maintain her position." '•. ' - , ; ' A