GERMANY AS AN ALLY.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE .sescrwron."] Sis,—Amongst prominent London journals your leading columns have alone pointed out what the recent German outbreak of ill-will really means,—viz., that we should be wise to seek elsewhere for allies. It is easy to mention cases in which English friendship has been advantageous to Germany. It is not so simple to call to mind any aid given by her to us in times of difficulty. On the contrary, she has done and is doing us material injury. Our trouble in South Africa is mostly of German brewing. Our predominant position as traders in the Yangtse Valley is being vigorously assailed by Germans. The chief ambition of the Kaiser at the present time is to obtain a commercial and political foothold in Asia Minor. The almost admitted object of the Baghdad Railway is to draw to German marts the trade of Southern Persia, which is so largely English now. The great danger, however, to English interests in the prospect of German influence in Asia Minor is the power, and very probably the will, to sap our rule and trade in Egypt. With a friendly Turkey, and the backing of a Turkish army, the task would be feasible, and, I should say, fascinating, to a modern German.—I am,
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