GERMAN PRESS VIEWS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14142, 19 July 1916, Page 5

GERMAN PRESS VIEWS.

ABANDONMENT OF THE ANNEXA-

TION POLICY

DISAGREEMENT WITH THE

CHANCELLOR

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

Mew York, July 17

A United Press despatch says that the Berlin press is divided as to the wisdom of the Chancellor\s opposition to the annexation of Belgium.

The "Cologne Gazette" defends Dr. yon Bethmann-Hollweg, asserting that it would be a mistake to swop horses in the middle of the stream. It acknowledges that the British have a huge reserve in Flanders, enabling them to make continuous attacks with fresh troops.

Count Reventlow considers the Chancellor's policy unwise, as the Allies will interpret it as a sign of German weak-

ening

The newspapers are discussing the possibility of peace following the Allies' offensive.

T'ne "Tageblatt" opines that the Allies will now endeavour - to induce

CABLE NEWS.

[Press Association — Coftbiohx.-]

Greece and Rournania to participate in the war.