EUROPEAN POLITICS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 25

EUROPEAN POLITICS.

WARNING TO TURKEY.

SUPPRESSION OF TERRORISM,

VIENNA, January 28

Baron Aehrenthal, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, in an address to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Hungarian Delegations, said they had reached that modern policy of rapprochement which had extended itself tinder such favourable auspices on both sides .to the Anglo-German relations. He expressed satisfaction at the Franco-Spanish, action, and warned the Sultan of Turkey that unless he fully supported the Powers in the reforms with which they had resolved to proceed his position in thr-ee vilayets would be jeopardised. The terrorism activity would not have assumed such dimensions had the Turkish authorities afforded the defenceless population energetic protection. The speaker added that the Balkan States had assured the Powers that they would not tokrate- tie organisation o.f bands in their countries. BERLIN, January 30.

The Reichstag has passed the Navy Bill, the Socialists and Poles voting against it. Herr Bebbet, speaking in the Reichstag, said it was clear that " Germany.'? fleet was intended for use against Great Britain, who, wearying of her constantefforts to maintain supremacy, might strike before it was too late. Herr' Tirpitz, Minister -of the Navy, declared that it was a figment of the imagination to suppose that Germany aspired to dispute Great Britain's supremacy of the seas. Germany's fleet was built in the interests of peace, and was not being built against anyone.