EXTENSION OF GOODWILL

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 103, 5 May 1925, Page 7

EXTENSION OF GOODWILL

COMMANDER'S ANTICIPATIONS

EAGER TO RENEW ASSOCIATIONS,

<tS!TED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPXRIOHT.)

(ADSTRAIAIN-XIW ZEALAND CABLB ASSOCIATION.) HONOLULU, 3rd May.

Admiral Coonlz, in an interview, said it was impossible to exaggerate the pleasure with which lie was looking forward to his visit to Australia and New Zealand wth the American Fleet. ".On my last visit in 1906 with the fleet which President Roosevelt sent around the world, I was executive officer on board the Nebraska. I have many delightful memories of that visit, and am not only glad personally of the opportunity to renew associations and revive memories of the glorious British Dominions, .but am eager to have the officers and men of the navy have the experience of a visit to Australia and New Zealand. It will be the first visit for most of them.

-" The cruise is not only a practice demonstration," continued .Admiral" Coontz, '-' but a very sincere extension of the good-will and recognition of mutual aspirations and ideals of the two great peoples bordering the Pacific. I will visit Melbourne and Wellington, and Admiral Robinson will- visit Sydney and Auckland. The battleships Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, and Nevada will accompany my flagship. The Seattle and the other eight battleships will go with Admiral Eobinson."