SPEECH BY VON BULOW.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8544, 26 March 1908, Page 2

SPEECH BY VON BULOW.

REFERENCE TO THE NAVY.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Per Preas Association.

BERLIN, March 25. in the Reichstag Prince von Bulow delivered a speech en foreign affairs. He made unsympathetic reference 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." Prince Bulow said that each country was entitled to fix its own standard of national defence, and ho resented a section of the British press talking of German danger when the British navy was several times stronger than that of Germany. He paid a tribute to .the manner in which the British Parliament dealt 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.