GERMANY'S ONLY OPPONENT

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1317, 21 December 1911, Page 5

GERMANY'S ONLY OPPONENT

« . DIATRIBE IK THE REICHSTAG. By 'leleeraph—Press Association—Copyright Berlin,. Dccsn),bei' ,10.., Ilerr Erzfcerger, leader of the Ccntro party, in a speech at Kiel appealed for an impregnable Navy, declaring that the British ,I'leet would be mobilised against Germany in the summer, and, therefore, Britain ivas branctoi as the nation which intended to make a plunderous attack upon the German peopb. Ilerr Erzberger ndded that Britain was Germany's only opponent on the globe. MORE ESPIONAGE CHARGES. Berlin; December 19. Several policemen and others on tho active list of the Navy have been arrested at Wilhelmshaveii on charges of espionage. A NEW RUMOUR. (Rec. December 20, 11.20 p.m.) Berlin, December 20. It is semi-officiaily stated that the reported British plans to block tho German fleet in Wilaclmshaven are sheer invention. Some of the newspapers interpret tho British occupation of Solum, on the boundary between Tripoli and Egypt, as reported yestenhy, as a move to secure a new British naval base.

A LABOUR PACIFICIST. (Rec. December 21, 0.10 a.m.) London, December 20. , iy Macdonald, Labour Jf.P. for Leicester, in a speech at the Caiton Hall, declared that the democratic foreign policy should centre itself on German}'. It was necessary to disarm suspicion felt in Germany towards lingland, which never could be'done by piling up naval expenditures.