GERMAN POLITICS.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12166, 14 February 1908, Page 4

GERMAN POLITICS.

Berlin, February .12.

Horr von Schon, the German Minister of Foreign A /fairs, sjeakiag before the Budget Committee of the

Reichstag, acknowledged M. Pichon's straightforward declarations of the Moroccan policy of France. Regarding the Baghdad railway, Heir von Schon said Germany hau iustered the undertaking for purely economic reasons. He ridiculed the fantastic reports that Germany con templated the seizure of a harbour in the Persian Gulf.