"DIE POST."
[To THZ EDITOR OF THE "5PECTATOR:1 Sin,—In the Spectator of February 3rd, in "Notes of the Week," you give considerable prominence to the utterances of Die Post of Berlin (quoted from the Daily Mail), which you describe as a "paper of standing." Die Post is the organ of small group of wealthy persons chiefly interested in mining industries, principally iron. The eircubstion, I am assured on good authority, is infinitesimal. It is chauvinistic in the extreme, and has for long past vehemently assailed the German Government because that Government declined to fall in with its views concerning the acquisition of territory in Morocco. The way the diatribes of Die Post are constantly quoted in certain British dailies as representative of German 'opinion, reminds me of the way the editorials of the Inde. pendance Belga used to be quoted here as representative of Belgian opinion on the Congo question, neither paper having the slightest pretension to represent even a section of popular opinion. ,I suppose the posters and effusions of certain papers in this country (which can at least claim a 'Wider circle of readers than Die ,Post) which fill the Streets with placards hearing devices of this kind; "Is the Kaiser behind the coal ,strike " How to fight Germany," and soon, are reproduced in Germany as indicative of British feeling. And so the game
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