German Press Bought by Dr Leyds.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10501, 23 November 1901, Page 2

German Press Bought by Dr Leyds.

Received November 23, 0.44 a.m. BERLIN, November, 22. The North German Gazette, commenting on the demonstrations, says justifiable resentment against inconsiderate and offensive expressions of a single Minister ought not to extend to the British Government- and people. Mr Chamberlain's explanation minimises the speech which rekindled the Anglophobia. Nobody would deny the general truth advanced as an apology for severities which accompany all wars. Official action against Mr Chamberlain's unofficial expressions was not necessary. The high reputation of the Germany Army for discipline, valour, and humanity was beyond the 'reach of false misplaced comparisons. The Hon. J. "Chamberlain, replying to Sasse, the London correspondent of the Vossiche Zeitung, said there, was no suggestion- that the severities cited, exceeded just and necessary measures. What was right and proper in_ another" nation's past policy cannot be inhuman, and barbarous in Britain's. Sasse, 'at the interview, said Dr Leyds' intercession was the real cause of the agitation. Many of the German newspapers were starving, and were glad to accept pecuniary assistance and respond to the buyer's wishes.