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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7364, 16 January 1902, Page 2

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• Pkr Prbss Association. — ByElhotbk Tblboraph — Copyright. BRITAIN AND GERMAKY. «_ PRESS COMMENTS ON MR CHAMBERLAIN'S SPEECH. Received January 16, 1.10 a.m. London, January 15. The Times, commenting on the Commonwealth Parliament's action, says the resolution adopted is by far the most important element in the news of the day. Nothing could be more emphatic and expressive than Mr I Barton's language, and Mr Reid's manliness and patriotism in recognising the pre-eminence of the question by endorsing and applauding Mr Barton's pledge. The Daily Telegraph says that Mr Chamberlain's ringing words to the colonies have received greater attention in Europe than any similar utterance heretofore. The colonies had hastened to reply, and nothing sent more passionate thrills of pride through the veins of Englishmen than this historic resolution. Those not with the Government and the colonies are practically against the Empire. The Standard says the striking manifestation of Imperial patriotic feeling is alike encouraging and significant. The Morning Post and Daily Chronicle warmly acclaim the colonies' action. The Daily News incidentally declares that the repudiation of the Blanders reflects the feeling of Britain, irrespective of party. GERMAN PRESS SILENT. GERMAN CHANCELLOR DINES WITH BRITISH MINISTER. Received January 16, 9.30 a.m. Berlin, January 15. Hevr Liebermann, the representative for Sonneberg, and an anti-Semite, boasts that when he made his attack ou Mr Chamberlain and the British Army there was a full Government bench in the Reichstag, which only mildly rebuked his insults to the Army. The German press is now silent regarding the Chamberlain-Bulow incident. Count yon Bulow dined with Sir F. C. Lascelles, British Minister at Berlin. Received January 16, 9.26 a.m. London, January 15. The evening newspapers re-echo the plaudits in reference to the Commonwealth attitude. The St. James' Gazette directs attention to the fact that this is the first time Federal troops have been sent. Dunedin, January 15. At a meeting of the City Council, after some, vigorous speeches, the following motion was passed with enthusiasm : " That it is the unanimous opinion of this Council that the Mayor should immediately call a public meeting of citizens and others for the purpose of passing resolutions upholding the action of Mr Chamberlain and the British Government in connection with the South African way, and denouncing the diabolical, atrocious, and untrue statements of the German press and all other pro-Boers on our brave and honoured Imperial and colonial troops now 6ghting at the call of the Empire in South Africa." The Mayor intimated that be would call a meeting next week. Napier, January 15. At a meeting of the Napier Borough Council to-night, it was unanimously resolved to send a cablegram to Mr Chamberlain, expressing the Council's high admiration of the firmness displayed by him during the present outburst of Anglophobia. - Wellington, January 15. A deputation of merchants waited on the Mayor of Wellington to-day, and urged that as Parliament is not sitting he should convene a public meeting to discuss the German strictures on Great Britain, and pass a resolution of protest, and at the same time communicate with other centres and urge similar simultaneous action, in order to form a kind of national protest. The Mayor agreed with the suggestion, and has convened a meeting for Friday afternoon.