BRITAIN AND GERMANY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 15 March 1910, Page 5

BRITAIN AND GERMANY

"HONORABLE AND SINCERE FRIENDSHIP."

GERMAN PRINCE'S TRIBUTE TO BRITAIN. ,

tPEESS ASSOCIATION. J BERLIN, March 14. Prince Henry, speaking at the last Asiatic Society's banquet at Hamburg, said he left Britain with a grateful heart. Hospitality, affection and frankness were the foundation whereupon j the life of their English cousins rested. He had been to Britain in an absolutely unofficial capacity, but he had spoken to many influential men, ar.d he (the Prince) assured his hearers that Britain offered Germany an honorable and sincere friendship. The idea of aggressive action was completely absent from the minds of the Government circles in Britain, but as friendship rested on reciprocity, nothing must be omitted from serving to strengthen it. Confidence begets confidence. Germans had fought shoulder to shoulder with the British in the Far East, and learned to respect them. Their interests were promoted by reciprocal confidence. The officers of the navy were sincere in their friendly feelings, but the merchants, like the military and naval men, to be comrades had a social duty. to discharge.