OLD FOES AS FRIENDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 13

OLD FOES AS FRIENDS.

GERMAN EX-SOLDIERS. PRINCE OF WALES APPLAUDED. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, June 29. Twenty-nino Germans who were prisoners of war in England came back to England this week —as honoured guests. They are the first German exservicemen to visit England since the war. Soon their visit will be returned by British ex-servicemen, as the Prince of Wales suggested should be the case at tho recent meeting of the British Legion in London. Brighton is the town which is acting as "host" to the Germans. When they arrived they found tho Mayor of Brighton and a hundred members of the British Legion waiting to welcome them. Immediately they arrived hundreds of people gathered round them. They hoisted their standard, bearing tho words "Freedom and comradeship," and gave tho Nazi salute to tho Legion standard. Then the British ex-servicemen passed down their ranks, shaking hands with each man, and saying, "Welcome, brother."

llerr Cievcns, vice-president of the German Association of Prisoners of War, said: '"We conio from the Westphalia branch of the German Ex-servicemen's Association. Wo are all Westphalians, and we were all prisoners of war, mostly at Camberley camp. The Prince of Wales' remark the other day that there could be no more suitaible body of men to stretch forth the hand of friendship to Germany than British ex-servicemen spread like wildfire throughout Germany. Believe me, the Prince of Wales is the man of the moment in Germany."