GERMAN TRADE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXVIII, 21 June 1912, Page 5

GERMAN TRADE.

■SPREADING THE. EMPIRE FLAG

SPEECH BY THE KAISER

BY C4.BLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. BERLIN, June 19. The Kaiser, in a speech at Hamburg, referring to the former decline of the t>ld Hause towns, said things were now changed, thanks to his grandfather's creation of the empire. The merchant was now assured of protection by the flag. But while the flag must fly in

Honor, it must not be raised in a light -spirit when its defence was not assured ; "hence his restraint in spreading it in places where it Mas longed for by many. As long as he reigned he pledged that , the flag would follow where the mer- ' chants led.