BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 1 June 1914, Page 5

BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY.

A STATEMENT FROM GERMANY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. . (Received June 1, 8.30 a.m.) BERLIN, May 31. The Tagliche Rundschau says that Great Britain has definitely rejected Russia and France's reqiiest to join a Franco-Russian naval convention. Sir Edward Grey intimated that the Government desired, in deference, to .British sentiment, to maintain good relations with Germany and avoid a step which might be regarded as directed against the latter.