Africa.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6886, 23 June 1890, Page 2

Africa.

Bismaeck is not devoting himself apparently altogether to vilifying the Government, tho Emperor, and his successor the Chancellor. The Kaiser has, it is said, declared that he will never prosecute hirn-a kind of statement which, in the mouth of tho master of forty legions and the owner of a hundred tremendous fortresses, is always suspicious. Iho very montioti of prosecution, even of the nolo Episcopari order, from such a quarter, is a heavy sort of threat. At all events, what Bismarck said about the Germans in Africa the other day cannot be among the things for which there waa any question of prosecution. Lord Salisbury, said the ex-Ohancollor, is a great deal wiser than Mr Stanley. This, he eaid, after tho pointu of tho Anglo-German settlement were published in the St James* Gazette; a journal bought by one of Bismarck's allies last year, in order to give the German Colonial policy at least one friend in the British capital. These are, as a glance at our cable news will show,, very fair and just. Gormany moveß inwards to the Congo Free Stite ; England moves in to the Lakes, North and South— both, to give each other trade routes. Tho tail of the British lion is cob down after all..