PRINCE VON BUELOW.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 513, 26 March 1908, Page 2

PRINCE VON BUELOW.

SPEECH ON ANGLO-GERMAN : MATTERS. THE KAISER'S LETTER. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH — COPYRIGHT] [per press association.] Berlin, March 25. In tho Reichstag, Prince von Buelow (the German Chancellor), delivered a speech on foreign affairs. Ho mado an unsympathetic referonce to Sir Edward Grey's scheme for dealing with Macedonia as jeopardising the Sultan's sovereignty, and gave reasons for the anticipation that the Concert of the Powers would be maintained. He referred at great length to the Kaiser's private political letter to Lord Tweedmouth, and emphasised the point that it was a friendly and frank one, "like one sailor to another." He paid a tribute to the manner *in which the British Parliament deait with the Kaiser's letter incident. \ The letter, he said, was such as might 'have been signed by every sincere friend of good relations between Germany and Great Britain.. Prince Buelow said that each country was entitled to fix its own standand of national defence, and -he resented » section of the British pjess talking of German danger when the British navy was severaJ times stronger than that of Germany.