THE POWERS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 510, 18 May 1909, Page 5

THE POWERS.

- V'..': - -''■: ■ ,—- — T+— —— '.".-.'■ ■I OBJECTS OF THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE, I : IS IT FOR PEACE? ' .' .ATJSTRO-GERMAN AFFIRMATIVES. ' (BV TELBQIUra—I'RESS ASSOCIATION—COVYIUOnT.) .....' (Rcc. May 17,11.50 p.m.) : London, May 17. 'Referring to the speeches of the Kaiser i and the Emperor at tho State banquet at Vienna, British newspapers, welcome the chivalrous acknowledgment made incidentally, by'tho Emperor Francis Joseph that all the Powers wero recently united .in a sincere endeavour to maintain peace. This iB hold to confirm tho declaration of Sir Edward Grey (British Secretary for Foreign Affaire). Vienna, May 17. . Tho newspaper "Fremdcnblatt" remarks that the Triple Alliance is for peace.' :\ .■.••' "■ Berlin, May; 17. ' '. The "North German Gazette" declares that any attempt to make the Triple Alliance serve aggrossivo purposes must inevitably lead to its relaxation and eventual dissolution. -.. ■ : THE CERMAH PERIL-AS CERMANS SEE IT, -POTENTIAL BRITISH RAIDS. BOTH NATIONS BUILDING THROUGH . MUTUAL FEAR. .'.,.-• : : ; Berlin, May 16. ■', Admiral Galster, a distinguished German, has published an alarming treatise to show that German ports are in great danger from British raids. ' ' ■'■•■ : ; - The Admiral's paper has caused great: interest, and stimulated the , movomeht in favour of tho building of a powerful fleet. OUR THIRD DREADNOUGHT. THE TEMERAIRE IN.COMMISSION,; : ■ ,•■''. London, May 16. ■ The. battleship Temeraire (the third British DreadnoughMmttleshi'p, launched in August, 1907) has boen'placed in commission and attached to the Home Fleet. The Temeraire has searchlights of four million candle-power, • and wireless telegraphic apparatus operating bver/a^radius of.lloo miles. .. '..■;.'.: