GERMANS WELCOME.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 131, 26 February 1908, Page 7

GERMANS WELCOME.

MR. KIDSTON'S BISCUIMEB.

FOREIGN AND ENGLISH THE SAME. BY TELEGIUPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT, (Rec. Feb. 25, 11.40 p.m.) Brisbane, February' 25. Mr. Kidston, tho Stato Premier, speaking at a recaption to officers of the German . cruiser ;no\v ■in port, said that if tho officers were visiting England, naval officers and English gentlemen would doubtless wolcomo thorn frankly | anrl heartily, knowing full well that,' at somo : timo in tho near future, they/might moot them on tho battle-field. That,'however, was not- tho feeling with which thoso present greeted their guests. They had in tho Australian States a much broader view of things, and'ho hoped thai; people would como round to tho Australian view of the matter. They in Australia, added Mr. Kidston, did not know' German and. Englishmen—they woro just as glad, to ; seo' Germans as Englishmen come There was room in Queensland for. many more 1 Germans. ALLEGED ANTI-BRITISH MOVEMENT. , . GERMANY ACCUSED. ' OT rELEGEAPH PHESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Berlin, February 24. An i anonymous ' Australian, ■ claiming to have been recently .a, ; British -secret serviceagent, has published a book in Berlin purporting to include dispatches and telcgrapia to Lord Selborno, .High Commissioner in South Africa, supplying ■ detailed 'revelations of a Pan-German aiiti-Brit-ish movement iu South Africa. . . • •>'. ' , ' . The book alleges that' Germany .is again .trying to create discontent- among natives and Boers. . .