IN GERMANY.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1727, 23 February 1912, Page 3

IN GERMANY.

FOUNDATIONS, BUT NO MORE

SOME VIEWS OF ENGLAND'S

TROUBLES

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

CPer Press Association.) (Reoeived Feb. 23, 8.15 a.m.) London, Feb. 22. The Telegraph from a weil-inform-ed source states that the foundation of an understanding between Britain and Germany are securely laid, but the difficulty at present is that 'the German Government, with its full knowledge ol Britain's policy, has advocated beyond, the most influential German public opinion. It only remains to'convince Germans that tliere is no substantial cause for difference, and also that an understanding would tend to check rivalry in naval . armaments, and promote closer commercidJ relations.

Berlin, Feb. 22. The Vossiche Zeitung, commenting on tho coal crisis, declares that the domestic situation in England, 'the imminence of a terrible labour struggle, also the revolutionary struggles about Homo Rule and the reform of the House of Lords, explain |the suddop desire for an arrangement with Germany. A consensus of the newspapers are sympathetic, but a German coal is unlikely. The Kreuz Zeitung states it is Britain's policy to hold firmly her intimate relations between France, Russia, and 'then in Germany. The Post, representing the military party, urges the breaking off of negotiations with Lord Haldane, and the establishment of a three-Emperor alliance, giving Russia a free hand iv Persia, Mongolia, and ffic Dardanelles. This plan would injure Britain's and France's positions in the Mediterranean and destroy Anglo-Russian friendship, but gain for Germany reliable friends.

(Receiverd Feb. 23, 9.30 a.m.)

Berlin, Feb. 22. The Lokal Auzeiger confidently reports that Anglo-German negotiations are proceeding satisfactorily, and that is is improbable, that the question of armaments and importr ant colonial mattors will occupy any leading part.