A GERMAN WELCOME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)

A GERMAN WELCOME.

i The high school girls who went to Germany from Manchester at the end of July with some doubts' about the safety of travel in that country have just returned and report that they had a splendid holiday. They were staying at an international camp-on the Baltic, and despite signs of keen nationalism seen on the journey, were welcomed with rare warmth and, from the first morning, awakened by pleasant music. They took part in all sorts of games, organised as we have them here, more or less, and lessons of sorts, mixed with dancing and singing-and theatricals. They found the Germans, skilled at this. One morning the German girls acted a version of "Rose-red and Snow-white" by a thatched cottage on the sunny beach, and another time they did a Chinese play under lanterns irt~ a park.

The campers went to Lubeck one day. A Senator took them into the Ratliaus and gave them an official welcotne. Later in the day they went to the Ernestinen Schule and heard a highly competent English class at work. The school produced a, little play about Hans Sachs, and the elder girls were released from school to take the campers round the city. On this expedition they came to St. Mary's Church and met the pastor, by accident, outside. He took them inside and the organist 'played old German chorales for them. The party encountered such acts of friendship and welcome everywhere they went.