NORTHCLIFFE IN GERMANY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 445, 10 July 1922, Page 2

NORTHCLIFFE IN GERMANY.

BUILDING TRADE NEVER MORI PROSPEROUS.

LONDON, June 8

Viscount Northcliffe, in the first article of a .series entitled “Incognito in Germany,” writes that when ho announced at the Australian and Now Zealand Luncheon Club Ids intention to visit Germany, the newspaper Dor Mittag savagely attacked him, saying, “This man is not coming to Germany to establish the truth and to proclaim it to England, but to forge and collect new weapons against us. If ho canto to ns wo should shut our doors in his face.”* Lord Northcliffe adds: “I am well aware that the German newspaper’s hark is often ferocious, and that the German himself, when properly tackled, is quite different in tone.’ Ho relates that upon entering Germany he conversed with a master builder, who said that the building trade was never more prosperous. When Lord Northcliffe presented his card, the builder said: “You’re no friend to Germany.” Lord Northcliffe replied: “I warned England and Germany that war was coming. 1 warned Germany and America that it was coming. They did not believe it. I have often spoken well of the Germans’ bravery. 1 have come to Germany to try To help and get facts.” The builder said: “Well, alter all, the- war has been finished a long time,” and offered his hand, which Lord Northel life did not take. Both bowed. “He went back to his task of for-tune-making,” concludes Lord Northcliffe. “He had forgotten me at once, I felt sure.”