EUROPEAN CRISIS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1230, 12 September 1911, Page 5

EUROPEAN CRISIS.

GERMAN COUNTER-PROPOSALS. I FINANCIAL STRINGENCY IN BERLIN. THE ARMY CONCENTRATED. By Tcleirraph—Press Association—ICopyright1Copyright (Rec. September 12, 1 a.m.) Paris, September 11. Semi-official German counter-proposals in tliß Moroccan' negotiations lia.vc l>con received, and raise questions of principle requiring serious and minute examination. HEAVY GOLD WITHDRAWALS.' ENORMOUS PURCHASES OF GRAIN. (Roc. September 12, 1 a.m.) London, September 11. The "Daily Graphic's" Paris correspondent states that the Russian Government is withdrawing the money of its last loan which is still deposited in Berlin. As all the French and much British money is being called in, the Berlin settlement- at the end of the month promises to be disastrous. French financiers believe that they have Germany on the run, and that tho best means of preventing a conflict is through the pocket. The "Graphic" adds German houses are Ending a difficulty in getting paper accepted for enormous purchases of grain. A FALL IN SHADES. (Rec. September 12, 1 a.m.) "Berlin, September 11. The news of the panic on tho Bourse has spread to the provinces, and brokers have received shoals of telegrams of instruction to "sell at any price. Bank and financial shares fell three per cent., and mining shares seven per cent. Meanwhile the runs on the Municipal Savings Bank continued, many small tradesmen demanding tho return of their money without tho customary three days' notice, ARMY MANOEUVRES. FORCE OF 110,000 MEN CONCENTRATED. (Rec. September 11, 11.40 p.m.) j Berlin, September 11. A force" of 110,000 men is taking part in the army manoeuvres, which begin today. Tho Kaiser has arrived to witness tho 1 operations. Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia commands one army, and Field-Marshal von der Goltz the other. Tho scene of tho manoeuvres is the forest country on tho borders of Mecklenburg and Pomeranian. It includes the chain of lakes where Murat isolated and overwhelmed' tlio retreating Prussians in 1806 after tho battle of Jena. The supplies aro being delivered in five-ton motor lorries travelling at a speed of twenty miles an hour. Four aeroplanes are with each army, and aro manned by a pilot and an observer. BRITISH PRECAUTIONS. FEAR OF FOREIGN SPIES. London, September 10. Bluejackets with ball cartridges aro 1 guarding the dock gates at Barrow to prevent the letting out of water, by which warships might bo grounded and damaged The precautions aTe due to the presence of alleged foreign spies. The polico protecting tho. ' Tickers' works at Barrow have been reinforccd.

. GERMANY IN THE VAN. AN ARCHBISHOP'S VIEW. Sydney, September 11. Archbishop' Eolly, in blessing a convent at Guildford, declared that Germany was the greatest nation in the world. Only recently she gave England a fright. Germany, said the Archbishop, had sent religious instruction into every school. If Australia wished to be great she must imitate tbo leading nation, and one that was overtaking. England in commerceaud naval supremacy. When children wero religiously instructed industrial strife would end, and the Divorce Courts would disappear.

Tho German naval manoeuvres are being held in the Baltic, and the scene of the army manoeuvres is a little distance inland. It was through this country that Murat, Soult, and Bernadotto pursued Blucher after Jena, until, on Novomber 7, ISO 6, ho laid clown his arms at Schwerta, when ho could retreat no further without violating tho neutrality of Denmark.