BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14156, 7 March 1908, Page 9

BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

CHARGE AGAINST THE KAISEB,

', SEVERE CRITICISM.

Preaa Aesociatiou-By Telcgtuph-Copyikkt. .LONDON, March 6.

, (Rsoeived March 6, atlo'47 p.m.) The Times'attttes'that the Kaiser ha written to Lord IVeedmouth/ relative t< the British arid German naval policy, am that, a reply has been despatched. "If the report is affirmed,-" says The Times, "the Kaiser's letter amounts to an attempt to influence in German interests the Minister responsible for 'the Naval .'Estimates;" '

. The Times urges thatthe letter )?e made public, and insists that if the oomplititle of admiral in the British navy ciw be held to warrant a foreign potentate .interfering in our domestic ■iiilairs bj secret appeals to the head of the department 'oa[ which , the national /safety depends jt becomes urgently neces : sary to abolish dynastic compliments."'. The Times averts that if King Edward similarly communicated with the lvead of the German Naya! and, Military Depart.ment there would be a universal cry of anger fronV one end of Germany to the other, and the world would, hold Germany within her fights. If the Kajscr had anything to say to Britain tending.',to a, fair understanding about armaments he could use the regular official channels for communicating witii tl)8 British Government, and no private relations with members of the Government can excuse a departure, from the regular methods and recourse to private influences, to -which some men 'are alienable when, the influences come from an exalted quarter.