The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-10
LETTER NOT
 MADE PUBLIC Contents of Emperor's Letter Unknown. A PRIVATE COMMUNICATION Lord Tweedmouth Expresses Sur prise at 0utburst of Press. Lord Resebery, Former Premier. Slsds speech ia the House of Lords :. Denouncing Yellow Jour
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A PRIVATE COMMUNICATION

letter sent last month by Emperor William of Germany to Lord Tweed mouth. First Lord of the Admiralty in which it has been charged, his maies- ty attempted to influence Great Britain legislation. and the British minister's reply thereto. would be made public for the edification of the people. was quickly dispelled by Mir. Asquith. Chan. cellor of the Exchequer, in the House of Commons this afternoon.
 .It is clearly out of the question:" said Mr, Asuuith. "to lay private and personal correspondence on the table
 A question from Aaneiius R. M. Lockwood. conservative. as to whether 1t was possible for q communication on such an important question to be regarded in any way as private, drew & stiii more curt yes from Mfr. Asqnlth and when he was asked to give the House an opportunity to discuss Lord Tweedmouth's conduct. the acting head of the government maintained e chilly silence.
 Later in the House of Lords the Firat Lord of the Admiralty was somewhat more communicative. but he threw no light on the real contents of the cor- respondence. He did. however. de- scribe the letter from Emperor William
 
 Expresses Surprise.
 Lord Tweedmouth expressed his sur prise at what he called the "extrmnr~ dinary outburst of the press'' during the last few days in connection with this matter. Continuing. he v0uch- safed the information that he had on several occasions received letters from the German Emperor. which had conin in the ordinary way through the post ofice. The particular letter now under discussion was a private and pernonaf one, Lord Tweedmouth declared When 1t reached him he showed 1t to Sir Ed- ward Gray. who agreed with him that t should be treated as private and not official Accordingly on February 2N he had replied to the Emperor in tho same friendly and informal manner. Lord Tweedmnuth concluded bv aMv surlng the House of his firm belief that the course adopted was a good one. and calculated to do what everybody 10 earnestly desired. namely, foster a good understandings between the German Empire and Great Britain.
 Lord Landsdowne. leader of the op- position in the House of Lords twifted Lord TweedInouth with not being ahle to keep his own secrets. He said that about as much privacy appeared to have been attached to this correspondence as usually attached to the private view at the Royal Academy that marked the commencement of each session: but. he said. he had no intention Of presn- ing the First Lord of the Admiralty to depart from his decision not to make the letter public.
 The feature of the session In the House of Lords was a speech by Lord Rosebery, who had the Prince of Wales In a seat beside him. The former pres mier made an attack upon the yellow journalism of England with special ref- erence to the inferences drawn by The London Times from the letters.
 An Insane Inference.
 we have witnessed" Lord Rosebery said. the whole world drawing the absolutely insane inference that the German Emperor was attempting to in& nuence Lord Tweedmouth with tho view of cutting down the naval estimates and checking the increase of British armaments. This country has been placed in an unseemly and ridiculous mentioned never entered eiie Emperorts head or the head of any educated per- son entitled to remain outside of a lu- natic asylum.
 There Is a section Of the press which seems anxious to create bad feelings between these two countries. and there is an impression abroad that because 8Feat bflIAln mas dfFlFtu Al A kft1uUty feeling for France. she should be hos tile to Germany. This section of the press took up this trivial incident to excite morbid suspicious between the two countries. suspicious which in my opinion gradually are developing into danger for the peace of Europe"
 Continuing Lord Rosebery reminded the country that its. friends of today might be the enemies of tomorrow. and vice versa. He drew the lesson rrST the Presesnts Psss excltsmSent o sSs shat endanger the peace of Enrope. Though thoughtful observers. he said, should not overlook the fact that the German p Practically tiIUSVVS the German man nation. Be. fore any German government. however powerful. would be able 10 declare on any. country it must have the support of this nation behind it and 1t could one ly have the support of the German na- tion in a war against Great Britain when the feeling of the nation has been uance of the peaceful condition im- practicable.
 So far as the British government is concerned, the statements this after noon in the house of commons and in the house of lords are regarded aa giaVS ilam's letter as f 10 Lord Tweedmouth. There is no truth In the report that an exchange of views is going on he- tween the two governments concern ing this correspondence or dealing with A possible reduction in naval armaments. The suggestion which has been advanced in several quarters that the incident has had prejudtcial CT feet on the relations between Great Britain and Germany was warmly rep- udlated at the foreign office today.
 Tn view of the antt-German excite ment prevalent at the present time is of especial attaches to the official an nouncement made this evening that the Prince and Princess Of Wales are month to visit Emperor William and the EupresS.