The Waikato Argus

Waikato Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1556, 14 May 1903, Page 2

The Waikato Argus

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THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1903.

Germany is becoming isolated in consequence mainly of the expansion movement which for some years lias been the main feature of ber policy. This movement has caused all the Powers of Europe to look with suspicion upon every utterance of the Kaiser or any of his responsible advisers, in China Germany has not stood loyally to the allies, and has unquestionably encouraged Russia to overt acts in Manchuria. It will be seen by a cablegram which appears in another column that the German Government has issued a semi-official note, complaining that the British Government did not check anti-German agitation, although the German Government resisted German public opinion in favour of the Boers. This, considering the historical despatch of the Kaiser to Kruger shortly after the Jameson raid, is about the coolest specimen of diplomatic misrepresentation recorded in history. It was made perfectly manifest during the early days of the war that Germany was the Power which sought to raise a coalition of other nations to prevent Britain from subduing the Boers and practically converting the whole of South Africa into a British possession. Germany's haste to build a navy can only be looked upon as a threat to Britain, and it is mainly Germany's activity in this direction which is forcing England to follow the same course, so much so that a naval base on the North Sea is thought necessary to secure Great Britain from attack by a German fleet. The cordiality with which the King of England was received in France indicates that these two ancient enemies, and subsequent allies during the Crimean era, recognise that their common interests demand that there shall be cordial diplomatic relations between the two nations, if only to keep within bounds the ambition of Russia and Germany. Germany of late, when a question of Russian aggression or evasion of the condition of treaties has been under consideration, has had a happy knack of stating that German interests are not involved, a statement which on more than one occasion has bGen manifestly untrue.