16th December.
Tue explanation of the unaccountable indignation excited in Germany by Mr. Chamberlain's reference to the warlike operations of other nations is very simple now that it has reached us. Mr. Chamberlain's words were—whether it was wise of a Cabinet Minister to have uttered heii at all is another question "To think the time has came er is coming when measures.of greater severity may be necessary, and if that time comes we can find' precedents for anything we do in the actions of those nations who now criticise our barbarity and cruelty, but whose examples in Poland, in the Caucasus, in Algeria, in Tongking, in Bosnia, and in the Franco-German war we have never approached." We regard Mr. Chamberlain's speech as 8
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