BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 9166, Issue 9165, 15 March 1910, Page 3

BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

CORDIAL SENTIMENTS. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) BERLIN, March 14. The Nord Deutscher Zeitung notes Mr McKenna's cordial references to Dr. Yon Hollweg's declaration, and adds, "Groat Britain considers only her own needs, so tho construction of tho Gorman fleet is based solely on the view that defence and shelter must bo created for sea interests that have grown of great importance to Germany's existence as a State."

Prince Henry of Prussia, speaking at the East Asiatic Society's banquet at Hamburg, said ho had left Britain with a grateful heart. Hospitality, affection, and frankness wore the foundations whereon the life of their English cousins rested. He had been to Britain in an absolutely unofficial capacity, but had spoken to many influential men, and he assured his hearers that Britain offered Germany an honourable and sincere friendship. Any idea of aggressive action was completely absent from the minds of Government circles in Britain, but that rested on reciprocity, and nothing must bo omitted to strengthen it. "Confidence," he said, "begets confidence. Germany fought shoulder to shoulder with Britain in the Far East, and learned to respect her." The interests of both countries were best promoted by reciprocal confidence between tho officers of tho navy, who wero sincere in friendly feelings, but the merchant, like the military and naval officers, might be comrades, yet had social duties to discharge.