BRITAIN AND GRMANY.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12185, 7 March 1908, Page 4

BRITAIN AND GRMANY.

THE QUESTION OF7NAVAL E POWER. *-«s^^gß Received March r 6, 10. 4.7 1p.m. "i£ London. March G. "Tbe Times" states that tbe Kaiaer has written to Lnrd Tweedmoutb relative to the British and German □aval policy, and that a reply has been despatched. If, hs is affirmed, the Kaiser's letter amounts to an attempt to influence in German interests the Minister responsible for the naval estimates, "The Times"' urges that the letter be made public. It insists that if the c-.:alimen-tary title of admiral in the JJiitisb Navy oan be held to warrant a foreign potentate interfering with our domestic affairs by secret appeals to the head of the department in which the national safety depends, it becomes an urgent necessity to abolish dynastic compliments. "The Times" asserts that, if King Edward similarly communicated with the head of the -German naval and military department, there would be a universal cry of anger from one end of Germany to the other, and the world would hold Germany withij her tights. If tbe Kaiser had anything to say to Britain tending to a fair understanding about armaments, he could use the regular official channels for communicating with the British Government. No private relations with members of the Government can excuse any departure from regular methods, and recourse to private influencs,to which some men are ameni able when coming from an exalted j quarter.