GERMANY AND AMERICA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12071, 15 September 1902, Page 5

GERMANY AND AMERICA.

WAR PREDICTED. Tun utterances attributed to Hoar-Admiral Taylor, of the United States navy, us to a probably conflict; between Germany and Amenta in 1907 have excited considerable comment in Germany. In a Washington despatch to the New York Herald RearAdmiral Taylor, tvho is chief of the Bureau of Xa\igation, wis described as thoroughly alive to the steady set of a current which is carrying the United States and Germany along converging lines in many parts of the globe and bringing the: two nations into closer rividry everywhere. To Bear-Admiral Taylor was given the credit of wanting the leaders of the United .States army and navy that preparations must begin at once and be vigorously prosecuted from this time, forvn for a grave crisis in Her-man-American relations in the spriag of 1307. The time of this crisis is fixed coincident with the most elFioieni sea power Uermany now contemplates—the time when 11.0 Panama canal will be occupying much attention in this country, when the Cuban Republic may have about reached the end of its tether. when Jamaica cud other West Indian islands will bo prostrate in bankruptcy, when the Netherlands—according to Admiral Taylor's predictions—will have been absorbed by tiermany, leaving Curaeoa and the other Dutch islands of the Caribbean Sea as bones of contention to force a. supreme test of the Monroe doctrine.