BRITAIN AND RUSSIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13890, 26 October 1905, Page 7

BRITAIN AND RUSSIA.

A PROJECTED ENTENTE. GERMAN ATTEMPTS TO DEFEAT AN UNDERSTANDING. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 25. The Czar’s audience with Sir Charles Harding©, tho British Ambassador, prior to the latter starting on leave, was markedly cordial. ' The audience is much commented on as connected with the projected Anglo-Rusdan understanding. Count Eenckendorff, the Russian Ambassador to London, is going to St Petersburg, and will continue pourparlers. The St Petersburg correspondent of tbe “Times” states that with a view to defeating tho Anglo-Russian entente Germany offered Russia most alluring inducements; The proposals had reference to joint action in the Baltic, and the ultimate apportionment of Austria and Hungary. Count De Witte readily advocated acceptance, but Franc© emphatically opposed the scheme. Its defeat may possibly explain tho attacks on Lord Lansdowne, and the retirement of the German Ambassador from St Petersburg. GERMAN INTRIGUE. LONDON, October 25. The Paris- correspondent of the “Times” says that Germany, in order to isolate France, tried to impress tho Czar that the disturbed state of Russia was due to her alliance with a Republic.