BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7709, 11 January 1905, Page 2

BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

strange miummSimm s CAPITAL 1 Attempt to Pronto t litfSew, LONDON, Jjan. ». The Beoli* correspondent of tfw Morning Post reveals an audaCloiM war scare in the German capital with a view to securing augment** tion of the German navy, Great jlirilain has been represented «■ | threatening an attack if the navy wus increased. According to the cm-respondent's friends, »ho claim to have hud information nom high ollicials, the KuiKer utuiillhad tbo German fleet at Kiel, and only King Edward's iiersonal eilorU averted a war. The correspondent add* that several of the Kaiser's closest advisers encouraged the scare. All danger has now, however, boon averted 4 but the navy remains mobilised. The Post hope* the suteuienui will be officially contradicted and du> proved. NO GROUND FOR APPREHENSION. (Received Jan. 10, 10.25 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. io. The scare is due partly to Oom monophobe articles In Um Army and Navy Gazette, Germans believing that the aeaii-ofßdal mobUtaation at Kiel was merely in the natur* of manoeuvre*. The North German Gazette an that nothing has arincn to «hm coumjfcatious,