The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-02
VOICE OF LIMOGES
IS BARELY HEARD
England No Longer Proclaimed
Inevitable and Preacher
Gus Enemy.
HAPPY YEAR FOR GERMANY
Kaiser Should Be Able to Feel
That He Has Not Lived
His Life iii Vain.

| Especial Cable TO The Times Dispatch
Berlin. March lit Is the uncxpect-
cd which always happens In politics
as in anything else In this world, The
! year OF 1918, which had been prophe-
sled to bring nothing but disasters to
| Germany. promises TO become one OF
the happcst that Germany has over
| seen.
| One by ono the dark clouds which
! threatened the future OF the German
empire are subsiding, and everything
seems to show that the closing years
OF the present kaiscr's reign will bring
about harmony everywhere.
The recent speech by Admiral Won
Tfrptz In the Rcichstag promises TO
mark a turning point in Ango-G crman
relations. And although thore IS still
much work to be done. before the old
feeling of mutual bitterness and sus-
picior between England and Germany
may truly TO said to have given way
to trust and friendship. tho German
papers like tho Nossischc Xcitung and
others. who asse'.y that an agreement
on the basis OF .,:Xtocn English battle
ships to ten German has been reached.
are undoubtedly right.
Fall Upon Dcuf I5ars.
Anybody who notices the tone of
the German press as a whole. cannot
help but sec that even II a few iingoc.
still growi against England. their
voices are falling upon deaf cars. and
Englar1l is no longer daily proclaimed
the inevitable and trcacherous enemy.
and certifying Visions Of Impossible
anu-G'Imau coalitions have ceased to
rob the German Michel of his sleep.
Anglophobia in Germany, II not act
ually killed, has at least received a
serious knock out blow
The Nossischc says tho fleet maniacs
al n
trinc oc inevitable war, Certainly
something is gained by tho fact that
"incvitabic war" has been put further
off and is no longer an affair of next
spring or next autumn, rs il has been
for some ycavs. There is :, breathing
interval. giving time for much water
To flow under the bridges.
In tho meantip,e, in absence OF night
mares of coalitions anG day-drcams of
invasions, thera IS time for agreements
on many points where English and
German interests would profit by com
promise and still more by CO. operation
thus providing a material basis for
mutual confidence which. as tho late
Herr Won Kiderlen- Wacchtor thought
is better titan jealous disou ssions OF
building programs.
1t is expected here that an ambas-
sadorial conference, with n limited pro
gram, would be held I'm Paris. as pro
posed at tho first London meeting
The subject will be international CO.
! operation In the settlement of the fl
nancial problems arising from the Bal
kan war. The Nossische suggests that
the accession of Prince Ernest AS n
member of the English royal house
To throne within the German fedora
ton should also help towards rap
| prochcmont.
Kaiser Happy Mnn.
Respected even by the Socialists. re-
concilcd to tho Guelphs, once more on
friendly terms with his oldest son. the
Kaiser may now he said to bo n happy
man. and he should he able to feel
at his approaching jubilee that he has
not lived his life in vain. but has real.
ly accomplished something for the en-
pirc he rules.
Only on one point his ambitions have