ENGLAND AND GERMANY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5095, 26 January 1885, Page 3

ENGLAND AND GERMANY.

New York December 13.

The latest German bluebopk, bound in white by way of novelty, nas been the sensation of the week. It shows that German colonisation, in ". Africa has been virtually due to England's hauteur and her posing as the natural protector of all newlydiscovered countries. Prince Bismarck demonstrated that if England had agreed to his first modeßt request, that German traders should be protected in the interior over which England claimed sovereignty he would have been satisfied. When England established such discriminative laws as practically to keep her colonial markets .to herself Germany thought it was time to take a hand in the game and did so. These statements produced many bitter comments from the English papers. The morning journals.are full of them to-day, and theirechpes are heard in the evening papers. St James's Gazette states that on the 4th February, 1883, Prince Bismarck asked Lord Granville whether, the British Foreign Office would protect German traders in the Anglo- African settlements. Eighteen months afterwards England begged German protection for Englishmen in Africa, The, article concludes as follows:— "England has been disgraced and snubbed before the world, and what makes it worse is that the snubbing has been richly deserved. Lord GranviUe's diplomacy, unless we learn in time by bitter experience, will bring troubles compared with which this rebuke, although sufficiently gross and humiliating, will appear as the merest scratch."