GERMAN POLITICS

Otago Witness, Issue 2803, 4 December 1907, Page 19

GERMAN POLITICS

BERLIN, November 2T. Prince yon Bulow has introduced a bill asking for a credit of £17,500,000 for the purpose of further Germanising the Polish provinces by expropriating the land of the Polish owners. Prince yon Bulow declared that there xras jio hope of the Government abandoning the policy which Prince Bismarck had initiated. The Poles and the Centre party strongly; opposed the measure. November 29. Herr Stengel, speaking in the Reichstag, stated that the uncovered Federal contributions would amount in 1907 to 109,000,000 marks, and to 200,000,000 marks in 1908. While it was imperative to increase the revenue, the Government meant to"]; rely upon indirect and. not on direct taxation. Berr Spahn, speaking on behalf "'of Wie Centre party, complained that the MoltkeHarden case had revealed a state of things within and without the* barracks, .recalling the conditions in the heathen days ofi ancient Rome. He declared that the whole of the cavalry regiments were infected, ft Prince yon Bulow protested against sue a exaggerated and unproved statements. He declared that the German army and people were thoroughly sound to the core, and that the nation, might trust the ■ Kaiser to sweep out with a vigorous broom everything not in accord with the purity of his life and house. Prince yon Bulov also stated that he had only heard o,' such practices last spring; and he had been? unable to bring the matter before theKaiser without proof. It was different with the Crown Prince, whose action he applauded. When the. Kaiser mentioned the subject ..Prince ,yon Bulow replied : "I shall look neither to "the right hand nor to the left, and' shall think only of keeping the escutcheon of your house and army unspotted." Prince yon Bulow further denied that the Camarilla h^ influenced the Kaiser, and said that &\]A chatter ought to cease. • • D€ceml>er %■ Prince yon Bulow, speaking in tJfc, Reichstag, made a warmly appreciative leference to the Kaiser's reception in England. He attributed the past estrange, ment between Great Britain and Germany, to a great mutual misunderstanding. Each had accused the other of objects arifl ideas which did not exist.

A plaster ca6t of an especially fin« specimen of the groper has been cent to the Wellington Museum, and is now on exhibition there. The 6sh from which the cast was taken was a very large one. -being 4ft Bin in length, and of the re-, markable depth of 22in. It was caught), in deep water in Cook Strait. It is.' remarkable that when these dcep-ee* monsters are pulled to the surface of th» sea the difference in pressure forces outf the eyes until they protrude an inch or two. *