BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 81, 17 November 1911, Page 5

BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

QUESTION IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, , . . . . A DELICATE SITUATION. London, November IG. In the House of Commons, Mr. C. Goldman enquired for further light on Herr von Hollweg’s statement regarding Mr, Llovd-Gcorge’s speech, and its sequel. 'O V L.K UR J f \f, 3 Mr. Asquith replied that the question covered many matters of gravity and delicacy. Sir Edward Grey would make a fuikqpfatoment in the course of the debate 2 next week.

r emphasises Sir A. Pon- - argues w that Jjord ' Selhourne was quite right in asking for definite information. He declares that the Foreign Office should Ft^hpcllod. to ‘ lay' all the cards*tad the Jtable, a>iid supports Mr. Noel Buxton’s and Mr. F. W. Jewett’s t far . thd establishment of a Foreign Affairs Committee. The paper contends ( that the permanent officials who ruii the Foreign Office cracy is anti-German. pro-Russian, and "• a gti-iN a tip nal i st, ..also opposing a Pcfsiaq-lSirkish ' renascence. Unless Sir >FdwriLl Grey is prepared to democratise the Foreign Office the country must find somebody else who can.

’ ' i'ROUBLF A r r SUVA. Vaupouver, November IG. Tlie ’strainer Mslriima brings a re-port.-that.-tile German cruiser Cormorant, at Suva, asked permission to send' important cables to Germany. The captain r of the British cruiser Prometheus refused, giving the. German wars)-:ip brief time to leave the harbour. The latter left. ''rnj' ' BR IT A IN’S POSIT lON. A GERMAN EXPLANATION. (Received 17, 8.10 a.m.) Berlin, November 16. Professor Scliiomann, in an article in the “Kreua Zcitung,” says that Britain, by reason of the obligations under the Franco-British Moroccan agreement of 1904, occupied a position similar to Germany’s in the Bosnian crisis. There had boon no threats from the British Government. Neither was Mr Llovd-George’s speech instigated by the Cabinet; It did not possess the significance attached to it. Nevertheless it occasioned great harm which it was regrettable Britain had not corrected.