INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12253, 1 June 1914, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

BRITAIN REFUSES TO ISOLATE GERMANY.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]

(Per Press Association.)

Received June 1. at 8.15 a.m. Berlin, May 31. The Taglische Rundschau says that Britain has definitely rejected Russia and France's request to join the Franco-Russian naval convention. The newspaper says Sir E, Grey intimated that his Government desired., in-defer-ence to British .sentiment, to maintain the good relations with Germany and avoid any step that might be regarded as directed against the latter.