GERMANY & BRITAIN.
A SHIPBUILDING PROPOSAL. 4
KAISE3KB EEPLY. SUGGESTED -CHANGE IN GERMAN:. ATTITUDE. , 'i I>res»J!A«soclaikm.— Copyright.^,, (Received August 21, 8.8 a.m.) LONDON, 20tff August, i On -the ground tfliat the foreign editor* of .the Vossischo.Z^eitung^is an^old friend' of Prince yon BSu^tow, the Imperial Chancellor, and that the newspaper has,' i often been utilised/ to announce -events_dn a less formal manner than semi- • officially, the Dailjy Telegrasphis Beifint correspondent credits a statement to. .•the effect that Sir Charles Hardsnge,British Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, intonated when akKron"berg that it was Britain's intention ta introduce a Bill to arrange for ■fouryears' shipbuilding. The Kaiser, it i$ said, replied that v sucb, a, step woa&l. not be regarded with animosity, a»d~. t.would not provoke counter measures. The correspondent adds: "The nrjth regarding Britain's so-called isolating,* policy has 'been exploded, and the>-wr"hole-account of the intei-view points to a$ fundamental change in Germany's ? a tti- > tude towards Great Britain." Sir Charles Hardmge accompanist' King Edward to the Continent, and ( \eas present at Kronberg when King Kaiser met. ',
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1908, Page 5
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172GERMANY & BRITAIN. Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1908, Page 5
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