GERMANY AND BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 11, 14 January 1902, Page 3

GERMANY AND BRITAIN.

I COMMENTS ON CHAMBER CAIN'S BPEEOH. PHB PBB3S AISOCIAnoV. London, January 12. Mr, Chamberlain, in his Birmingham speech, said his opponents must find another scapegoat for the vile and infamous falsehoods disseminated in foreign countries without a syllable of protest or the slightest interference from the responsible authorities. Count Bulow's reference to the Triple Allianca is regarded in Paris, ftome, and Vienr.-v as mere bravado intending to warn Hungary and Italy that their menaces have not ohanged Germany's policy. I Many of the Vienna papers speculate whether Count Bulow intended to sound the knell of the Triple Alliance. The Paris newspaper Journal dea Debali comments on the increasing estrangement between and Germany. | ■ Stdnbt, January 13. I The Telegraph says the dangerously ioiUmed condition of Anglo-German relationship can scarcely go much further without a point being approached at which language becomes inadequate ! to provide a vent. The Herald says the time has arrived when expressions of German ginglophobia should be checked, otherwise it might be allowed to proceed to such a length as to set two nations by th* ear. THE BALFOUR OHAMBERGAIN REPLIES. BULOW. HISSES HIS PURPOSE. Received 11,0,3t a.m. Londoh, January 13 The Times says that Mr Balfour and Mr Chamberlain, in emphasizing the fact that Britain is justly proud of her army, and comparing other artkies with ours, is the highest compliment we could bestow, and the only reply a nation which has not lost its self-res-pect could make to tbe attacks on thu honour of i's soldiers, and insinuation that the Government, hud apo'ogfeed for comparit gi s soldie s »ita those of another atite.

Mr Chamberlain's m»s'ejful retort to Count von Bu'ow, and also the growing recognition of the colonies, is warmly re-echoed by nil but the proBoer Pie?s. The concensus of opinion is that Billow's uttarances have heightened Mr Chamberlain's popularity and power. 0 unt Bulow thought to allay irrita ion, but his friends say he expressed himself badly, and missed his aim.