ey fatty (busy) io. overcast Use ye cone; f, fog: snow; t, thunder; calm. Fores from A REMARKABLE letter has been contributed to the London " Times" by Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, under the above heading. Roughly summarised it runs as follows:—British policy for some time has been governed by postulated preference rather than by prosaic fact, and the Bluebook on the Northern Chinese railways (just examined in these columns: is cited as proof of that fa Agreement with Germany is a "mischievous illusion." National antipathies on their side as well as economic necessity forbid. But that is their business, and should not be allowed to warp our policy towards other Powers. German population and trade are growing. Britain stands in the way, and "has to be reduced to submission." Our commercial and naval supremacy are to be destroyed. Bis-marek tried to embroil us with Russia land France with this aim in view, and "the Foreign Office at Berlin Steadily devotes itself to the work of
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