27 APRIL 1912, Page 31

WHAT EVERY GERMAN WANTS TO KNOW.

[To TUE EDITOR OF Till " SPECTATOR:1 SIE,^4 hope you will not deem it an impertinence if I venture to ask a question which imagination suggests as being a very natural one on the part of a German. Is the British fleet to be used against Germany in the event of her endeavouring to secure territory (not British) in which the over-spill of her population may live under her own flag P—I am, Sir, &e.,

Immo S. ALLEN, London Institution, Finsbury Circus, B.C.

[Certainly not, unless, of course, Germany were to seize the territory of a Power in virtual alliance with Britain—as, for example, France or Russia. We clearly should not allow France to be overwhelmed by Germany because France would not cede portions of her Colonial Empire to Germany.—En.

Spectator.]