GERMAN OFFICIAL ON BRITAIN'S POSITION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12306, 5 August 1914, Page 5

GERMAN OFFICIAL ON BRITAIN'S POSITION.

IiLTTEII TO REMAIN NEUTRAL

ARMY OF SMALT, VALUE

Received August -1. at 0.-jO p.in

London. August 3. lia ion .Kieliliuaim, Councillor at the "crmau Embassy, discussing Germany's offer to Britain of neutrality, asserted that since a few British divisions were insufficient to alter tho balance of poirer. Britain's armed neutrality would have been diplomatically a greater asset 'o I'ranee than Britain's joinim: in the war.