THE GREAT POWERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12615, 18 November 1911, Page 5

THE GREAT POWERS.

(Press Assn.—By Telegraph.— Copyright.)

BERLIN, November 17. The Budget Committee in the Reich stag has requested, the Government to., give full information as to Mr Lloyd George's speech and the causes which Herr von Bethmann Hollweg's speech did not touch. The Government's answer will probably be confidential.

PARIS, November 17. The reported Anglo-German exchange of territory in India is denied.

(Received November 18, 8:5 a.m.) - BERLIN, November 17. .' The Frankfurt Times declares tliat the Radical party's contention that the relations of England and Germany were critical in September is not supported in well-informed - circles.

Herr;.Jsenstein,7 a -Socialist , 'writer.,'' states that Mr Ramsay MacDonald had informed him that Britain had sent Germany a friendly communication regarding Morocco, which was not answered. A fortnight later Britain repeated the inquiry, and Mr MacDonald stated that the German answer was an insult. Thereupon fallowed Mr Lloyd George's speech. '„- *..._';'

In the speech referred to, Mr Lloyd George, without specially naming . any Power, emphatically declared that where vital interests were concerned Great Britain would' not allow herself to be treated as if of no account in the Cabinet of nations.