GERMANY AND BRITAIN.
THE DARDANELLES INCIDENT. PROTESTATIONS OF FRIENDSHIP. BERLIN, January 21. In tins course of his speech in the Reichstag on tho Imperial Estimates, Count Von Billow, commenting on the Dardanelles incident, said that Germany’s failure to support Britain did not imply hostility, but was in accord with tho traditional policy of the Fatherland and its geographical position, which imposed a peaceful and an impartial neutrality. Thp attitude of tho British newspapers towards Germany, ho declared, was duo to Continental press attacks on British policy in South Africa. Germany’s policy had boon shaped in harmony with hoi- permanent interests. Horace’s line—“ Quicquid delirant reges plectuutnr achivi ” (“ Tho follies their Slings commit tho Greeks are scourged for ”) —was nowadays reversed. It was the people who did the mischief, and tho rulers who smarted. Continuing, tho Chancellor said he rejoiced that tho relations between Britain and Germany were unchanged. He would continue to follow on old, tried, discreet and friendly lines, impelled by many important interests to agree to peaoo and friendship.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4870, 23 January 1903, Page 5
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