[498] Sir V. Chirol, Quarterly Review, Oct. 1914.
[499] Bülow, Imperial Germany, pp. 98-9 (Eng. transl.); Rachfahl, Kaiser und Reich (p. 163), states that, as in 1900-1, the German fleet, even along with those of France and Russia, was no match for the British fleet, Germany necessarily remained neutral. See, too, Hurd and Castle, German Sea Power, chap. v.
[500] Prince Hohenlohe, Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 480.
[501] Contemporary Review, April 1892.
[502] See Hurgronje, The Holy War; made in Germany, pp. 27-39, 68-78; also G. E. Holt, Morocco the Piquant (1914), who says (chap, xiv.): "Islam is waiting for war in Europe. . . . A war between any two European Powers, in my opinion, would mean the uprising of Islam."
[503] Latterly, the catchword, England ist der Feind ("England is the enemy"), has been taught in very many schools.
[504] Reventlow, Deutschlands auswärtige Politik, pp. 178-9; Mr. Chamberlain's Speeches, vol. ii. p. 68.
[505] In September 1895 the Tsar thanked Prince Hohenlohe for supporting his Far East policy, and said he was weary of Armenia and distrustful of England; so, too, in September 1896, when Russo-German relations were also excellent (Hohenlohe Mems., Eng. edit., ii. 463, 470).
[506] Secret Memoirs of Count Hayashi (London, 1915), pp. 97-131. There are suspicious features about this book. I refer to it with all reserve. Reventlow (Deutschlands auswärtige Politik, p. 178) thinks Eckardstein may have been playing his own game--an improbable suggestion.
[507] Quarterly Review, Oct. 1914, pp. 426-9.