ENGLAND AND GERMANY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2149, 26 March 1908, Page 3

ENGLAND AND GERMANY.

SPEECH BY GERMAN CHANCELLOR. THE -KAISER’S LETTER. United Press Association— Copyright (Received March 25, 9.49 p.in.) BERLIN, March 20. In the Reichstag, Prince' Bulow delivered a speech on foreign affairs, and made an unsympathetic reference to Sir Edward Grey’s scheme for dealing with Macedonia, as jeopardising the Sultan’s sovereignty. . He gave reasons for the anticipation that the concert of the Powers would be maintained, and referred at «reat length to the Kaiser’s private -political letter to Lord Tweedmouth, and emphasised that it was a friendly and frank one, like from one sailor to al prince Bulow declaimed that each country was entitled to fix its own standard of national defence. He resented the section of the British press talking of a German danger when the British navy were several times stronger than the German. He paid a tribute to the manner in which the British Parliament had dealt with the Kaiser’s lettei incident. , . . , , The letter was such as might be signed by every sincere friend of the good relations between Germany and Britain.