GERMAN. FARMERS GROWING UNEASY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12401, 14 October 1903, Page 5

GERMAN. FARMERS GROWING UNEASY.

QJeod-red October 15, 10.16 pan.) London, October 12. German agrarian newspapers ana growing uneasy over the effects of the proposed British tax on corn. They recall how the French tax on wheat, adopted in 1894, enabled Algeria and Tunis to supply France's needs.

THE RETALIATORY POLICY. (Received October 13, 11.43 p.m.) London, October 13. Lieutenant-Colonel Bromley Davenport, the new Financial Secretary for "War, speaking at Macclesfield, said the Prime Minister and the new Minister for War were determined that the country should reap the full benefit of the bitter lessons of the Boer war. He had advocated a retaliation policy for 17 years, and rejoiced in the promise of its effective realisation in the hands of a powerful, eloquent and brilliant Premier.. He challenged the Liberal leaders to come to Macclesfield and say that Cobdenism had been a blessing to the silk industry.

THE AUSTRALIAN FREE TRADERS. Sydney, October 13, Mr. Reid declared in the course of his speech that there were two ways of promoting the unity and welfare of the Empire. The one he preferred would leave these great self-governing States free to revolve in. their own orbits without . absorption by the central sun. What was agitating Mr. Chamberlain was not preferential tariffs, bub the establishment of a partnership in military adventures.

' The British Empire meeting resolved to cable an emphatic protest to Sir H. Carop-bell-Bannerman against the unwarrantable conduct of Sir Edmund Barton and Sir John See in cabling to Mr. Chamberlain expressing approval of his fiscal policy, and that the meeting was of opinion that the next election would show tho Australian people's desire without any bargaining or conditions to reduce the tariff wall which at present divided Australia from the Mother Country.