BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10301, 23 February 1912, Page 5

BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received February 23, 9 a.m. London, February 22. Tbe Telegraph, from a weil informed Eoaroe, states that the faundations o? feae unde?s*anding beiween Britain and Germany have been secnrely laid, bui the difficulty at orssenfi is Shat the German Governlaeut, with its full knowledge that British policy has advanced beyond the most iuflseEtial German public opinion considecfl that it onlj reHaains to convince Germans that thoxo is no substantia! cause for ! difference, a!»o that the nnderstand!ina would tend to check rivalry in naval armasnenta and promote closer comsaezoial relations BeilJa, February 22. The VoEsiohe ZeStncg, oomment--1 'ng on the coal crisis, declares that tiie demesne sSfeoatioa in England shows the imminence of a terrible labour struggle, aleo that the revolutionary struggles about Home Sale and reform of the Lords explain the sadden desire for an arrangement with Germany, The Kreuz Zeifcnng states it is Brltaia'a policy to hold firmly to jjjtimatc relations with France and i liassia, and to hem in Germany. ! Tha Past, representing the naiitary the bseakiag off of aeffotsatiSons with Lord Haldaae, . aid-- tha establishment of a three Emperors aliiasce. giving Russia a jrae band ia Persia, Mongolia and the This plan would iajniQ Britain's and France's posiI Uana ia She Mediterranean, destroy \ Aaglo-Russian friendehiiJ, and gain irelfable frleads_ | Berlin, Febrnry.22. i The Lofeal Asizeiger confidently t that the AngL.'->GRrmn negotifc»oas are proceed3«g satisfactorily, ' and that it is iiß?3TObab39 that armacTents and important colonial qnea- ' ticna wili coenpy any leading part.