GERMANY AND BRITAIN,

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2707, 11 January 1910, Page 5

GERMANY AND BRITAIN,

CABLE NEWS.

CONSERVATIVE VIEW OF NAVAL QUESTION. United Puichs Ahsv-ciatc.on —Copyright LONDON, Jan. S. Mr. Bonar Law, Conservative member for Camberwell, speaking at Camberwell, said while our fleet had been dispersed Germany’s has been concentrated in the North Sea, Germany’s army is the most efficient in the world, and if she went to war with us she could strike us down without the possibility of our offering resistance if slie bad command of the Channel. Hence we must have an unchallenged navy. GERMANS DISLIKE BALFOUR’S PLAIN SPEAKING.

LONDON, Jan. 9

The “Daily Mail’s” Berlin correspondent reports that newspapers of all shades -are unanimously assailing the English Conservatives and heaping vituperation on Mr. Balfour. The “Freisinige Zeitung,” discussing the English elections and the tariff prospects, declared that foreign countries have a powerful word to say in the matter. It states: “What would Argentina say if Britain imposed a duty on wool, tallow, wheat, and frozen meat, importing the same goods duty free from Canada and Australia? "Would other countries remain silent if a duty free market was opened to the colonies in London?”