FRIENDLY.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1134, 15 March 1910, Page 2

FRIENDLY.

BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

PRINCE HENRTS SENTIMENTS

"CONFIDENCE BEGETS CON FIDENCE."

ISY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH— COPYRIGHT. IJ'BB VEKfiH *.BFOC!IATTOF • Berlin, March 14. Prince Henry, speaking at the East Asiatic Society's banquet, Hamburg, said he left Britain with a gjrateful heart. Hospitality, affection and frankness were the foundation whereon the life of their 'English cousins rested. He had been in Britain in an absolutely unofficial capacity, but had spoken to many influential men. and lie assured his hearers that Britain offered Germany honourable and sincere friendship. The idea of aggressive action was completely absent from the minds of the men in the Government circles of Britain, but that rests on reciprocity. Nothing must he omitted which would servo to strengthen it. Confidence begets confidence. Germany had fought shoulder to shoulder with the British in the Far East, and had learned to respect them. Mutual interest could best be promoted by reciprocal confidence. The officers of the Navy were sincere in their friendly feelings, but the merchant, like his military and naval comrades, had a social, duty to discharge. The- Nord Deutsche Zeitung , ., a Berlin paper, notes Mr McTCenna's cordial references to Herr Hollweg's recent declaration, and adds that as Britain considers only her own needs, so the construction of the German fleet is based solely with a. view that defence and shelter must be created for the sea interests that have grown to be of such great importance, to Germany's existence as a State.