28 MARCH 1903, Page 14

GERMANY AND BRITAIN.

(To THE EDITOR OP THE "$PEOPATOR.1 Sin,—Your political essays always remind me of our College " ventures." Germany is your bête noire, and if your ways were adopted I fancy you would find her beaucoup plus noire than you would like. Allow me to show you the reverse of your sketch. Enmity between Germany and Russia to suit you is never likely to break out. If it did, Austria, perhaps also Turkey, would be quite equal to the occasion. An English expe- ditionary corps would be of little assistance to France. The outcome of a comparatively short struggle would probably be the handing over to your bete noire of one or two fleets, and then—Sic transit gloria Britanniae.—I am, Sir, &c., S [We print the above as a significant example of aA:ONrta.in section of German feeling.—En. Spectator.]