GERMAN PRO-BOERS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 4925, 15 January 1902, Page 3

GERMAN PRO-BOERS.

London, January J2.

Count von Bulow's reference to the Triple Alliance is regarded in Paris, Home and Vienna as bravado, annd intended to warn Hungary and Italy that their menaces have not changed Germany's commercial policy. Many Vienna papers speculate whether Count Bulow intended to sound the knell of the Triple Alliance.

Mr Chamberlain, in the course of his Birmingham speech, said that his opponents must find another scapegoat for tbe vile and infamous falsehoods whioh had bean disseminated in foreign countries without a syllable of protest or the slightest interference from the responsible authorities.

Lord Milner has said that he will not flinch from his task because a number of ill-bred curs are barking at his heels.

The Paris newspaper " Debats " comments on the increasing estrangement between England and Germany. 'I he German press is astonished at tbe outburst of indignation. The press imagined Great Britain was too fettered in South Africa to notice insults. The tone of the articles has suddenly modifled. Mr Chamberlain's masterful retort to Count von Bulow, also the growing recognition of the colonies,' is warmly reechoed by all but the pro-Boer press.

There is a consensus of opinion that Count von Bulow's utterances have heightened Mr Chamberlaiu's popu* larity and power. Count Bulow thought to allay the irritation, but his friends say he expressed hi in self badly, and missed his aim.

" The Times " says Mr Balfonr and Mr ChamberlainJs emphasising of tbe fact that Great Britain was justly proud of her army, and comparing other armies with ours, is the highest oompliment we could bestow, and the only reply a nation which has not lost its self-respect could make to attacks on the honor of its soldiers and the insinuation thai the Government had apologised for comparing its Boldiers to those of another state. Sydney, January 13.

" The Telegraph " says that the dangerously inflamed condition of the An-glo-German relationship can scarcely go much fur I . her without a point being approached at which language becomes inadequate to provide a vent. " The Sydney Morning Herald " says that t>ne Dime indeed Has arrived when expressions ot German Anglophobia should be checked. They might be allowed to proceed to such a length as to set the two nations by qhe ears.