GERMAN ANGLOPHOBIA.

Evening Star, Issue 11661, 21 January 1902, Page 4

GERMAN ANGLOPHOBIA.

A REMARKABLE ADVERTISEMENT.

[Spbcial to xhb Stab.] WELLINGTON, January 21. The following extraordinary advertisement appears in this morning's ' Times': — "To the people of New Zealand.—Friends, greetings. We we not the monstrosity your leaders strive to depict. To create race hatred your newsmongers are made to misrepresent much and manufactare more. Against that we protest We positively decline the role of scapegoat in any. game that stands in need of these iiveaing-up artifices. An endeavor has been made to comnranicato to you through the Press of your metropolis that the real origin and extent of oar unhappy offending is to be deplored. Such is not permitted us. Therefore, wft must content ourselves for the moment to speak through this medium.—The Continental Press, January 8, 1902." AUCKLANDS PROTEST. At a meeting of the Auckland City Council last night the Mayor moved—" That this Council, in the name and on behalf of the citizens of Auckland, indignantly resent the slanderous attacks made in the German Press upon the honor of the British Empire and upon the Imperial and colonial troops operating in South Africa, and desire to express their high appreciation of and thanks to the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain for his prompt, vigorous, and effectivo refutation of such uncalled-for attacks. The Council believe the adoption of a vigorous, military campaign, with the object ot speedily terminating the war in South Africa, is a policy dictated by considerations of humanity, and they regret exceedingly that bloodshed has been prolonged by the action of a section of our own countrymen creating false hopes in the minds of the enemies of the Empire." Patriotic speeches were delivered by the mayor and others. A suggestion of preferential duties against foreign goods was heartily applauded. One member stated that whatever duty the Government find it necessary to put on British goods, it should be doubled in the case of foreign manufactures. The motion W»S unanimously carried amid enthusiasm, a large gathering oi the general public being present. ' God save the King' was heartily sung. A similar motion was carried at a meeting of the Grey Lynn Borough Council.