The Thames Star. Resurrexi FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1904. GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10457, 4 November 1904, Page 2

The Thames Star. Resurrexi FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1904. GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

'Th-o suiggestioir win-eyed iv the cable m,eissa.gesi that Gennnji intrigue lniiy he responsible for the D.aggcrhaak outrage adds interest to. an. air■tiiiile that app.ea-red in a -recent number of the Fortnightly Deview. It was; hieiadladi "The New Geirunan I'nrtrigiue," a.nd it. sought, to show that the naval ambitions of German constituted tdiei chief danger with winch Great Britain had to deal. Germany, it. .stated, lr.ad .been inst:ruic.ted by the oventual success of the Britisdii "arms in South Africa, a.nd warned Ijy the fate of Russia in .the Far East-""The Kaaseu-'si isuibjoLltw,,' 1 th,ei authoir contended, "vnsask either assert their future 'upon the water, 01- run the. risk of a. orushing defeat upon the water, so that, tha naval rivalry between the (holders of sea power and the now aspirant to sea power, is not a myth treated' by alarmists, .but. a, real tangible danger."' No British interest coiuild' ibenofib Ijj* tha promotion of aaiiy Gernnuii interest, ho added, and those who had taken, a- firm ijrawp of thnifc mixini. would be fairly sound judgesi of deivelopmentsi in foreign il'i'Tjli'cy- BVitain m.i'ist; dhjo'o'so ibtetwieenii Franco and tlio Faitherlaud. "O'ulr presionl. relations; with the Jlopublici aro i niciompat.iblc with do!>er rehLtiiwiis with; Barlin., and in wjneort with, Paris, British. i*olicy. if well advised, will seek its. snfeguanl a,g'tiins.t the diplomatic ba.uk v?t\sh of the Far Eaisleml warl-" Am articki published aiboub tliio same time in the "National Review" also warned Grea Britain against the machinations! of Germany. "It must 'be steadily borne in ■m/iinid'," isaicTl (tine writer, "Uiafc the 1 main objerti of Geirmanj'' is the absorption of Holland into the Gerojaii

Empire. One way to prevent siudi a dangerous consummation for England •woiuldi ba the neutralisation of Holland, and this can only be iblrought 'albbujtj iby the lao.n.'cteirted!, -a^tioa of 'BrngiHandi Jtwidl ■Pranic|e. Hh& fear of this neutralisation' is very great ?n G'ermiany. If German policy asi regards Holland i,s to ba successful, il is obviously necessary that France and Great Britain ishoiuld be kept apart, aaidl thisi the tact and diplomacy of the King have gone a long way to evert-" It has been suggested more than once dutringl the course of tihe pnegemti war that Germany would not altogether regret a difficulty between Great Britain) and Riii'ssia if it forced Frame© to support her Muscovite ally,

hat the mositi ungenerous of the

Kaiser's! 'C|ritici9 will hardly suspect him of liavingt directly* instigated- the Do:ggerbanfc oiuti'age.