The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-28
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road line to Basra. By this treaty the whole of Mesopotamia up to Basra became a German zone of interest by which all British rights and the question of shipping on the Ilgrls were left untouched. The British economic territories, the prince adds, included the coasts of the Persian 3 gulf and the Smyrna-Aden railroad, the French territory was Syria and the Russian was Armenia. Had the treaty been concluded and published. he continues, an agreement would have been reached with England that would have finally ended all doubt or the possibility of Anglo-German CO., operation.
 Referring to the difficult question of German naval activity, the prince saws it was never judged quite cor rectly. The creation of a mighty fleet on the other side of the North Sea and the simultaneous development | of the continents most important mll- itary power into most naval power he declares, had at least to be recog- nized by Great Britain as uncomfort- able.
 To maintain the necessary lead and 2 to preserve the supremacy Of the seas which Great Britain must have Tn or der not to go down, the prince adds' : she had to undertake preparatlons < and expenses which weighed heavily on the taxpayers. The threat against British world position was that the < German policy permitted the possi- E bilitv of wa,rlike development to ap- near. This possibility, the prince as- z eerts was obviously near during the S Ndorocran crisis and the Bosnian ques- tfon.
 The powers had become reconc1led +o tine German fleet in its dennlte s,treierth. Obviously it was not wei Es ,o1,,e +s, Great Britain and, the prince H declares. constituted one of the mo- +i1res but neither the only or most inor,or+ant motive for Englands 1oln- ingy hands with Russia and France
 S, account of the German fleet ] ,lora Prince Lichnowsky says, 'Grea1 Rr;+aip would have drawn the Sworo as little on account of German traue { .s,r,bicb it is pretended called forth x her iealously and finally prouSh' about war" s Discussing the question of trad @ iaalousv Prince Lichnowsky says Il Tes+ed on a. faulty judgment Of CIT t,S1,,,,s+ances. It is a fact, he says +bot cermany's progress as tradlne 2 country after the war Of 1StO ane ,5r,,ino- the following decades, threat arad tha interests of British trad' e circlas hut the growing 1ntercnanst = -r,ercbandise with Germany hat o1,or-ad +be desire to mature to ore serve good relations with Great Brlt oin,s hest client and business rT1en' and this gradually suppressed all olne thoughts and motives.
 pr;nee I,ichnowsky, in order to ge into touch with the most importan
 h,siness circles, says he accepted Tn
 ,,ita lions from the chambers of com ,oonce in London and Bradford an
 fron chambers in other great cities
 like Newcastle and Liverpool. Ii
 says he had hearty reception every
 where. Business men in Glasgow an K Edinburgh also had invited him an 5 he had promised to visit them
 Persons who did not understan
 British conditions and who did nc annreciate the value of public dinner
 and others who disliked his success
 renroached him with having don q harm by his speeches. He, on tn E sontrarv. believed his public appear
 ances and discussions of commo
 economic interests contributed COT
 sfdetably toward the improvement (
 conditions In other circles the prime
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 soved the cordial good will of th
 court, society and the government.