The Archive · 1904

ATTACK ON THE PRO- RUSSIANISM OF THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT

London vii Bombay, 10th May.

In the Reichstag, the Socialist leader Herr Bebel attacked the German Governmeni's pro-Russian attitude towards the war, and declared that the Kaiser's telegram of sympathy with the Czar on the occasion of the Petropavlovsk disaster in no wise reflected the feeling of the nation.

Count Biilow, the German _Chancellor, denied that the Kaiser's telegram was a departure from neutrality, and regretted that the disasters which had befallen a neighbouring friendly nation bad been the object of malicious articles.and caricatures in a portion of the German Press.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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