GERMANY AND ENGLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10079, 14 March 1896, Page 4

GERMANY AND ENGLAND.

Tub letter which we publish in our supplement, from Dr. McDoyell, of Auckland, who is at present in Berlin, will be found of much interest at the present time. It shows the German feeling towards England as descri>d by a, young colonial, who naturally ooks at all those things from a coloiist's point of view. Dr. McDowell states that he. has been surprised to find 'iow widespread in Germany is the idea that pt)o colonies are pervaded with n deling of disloyalty to the mother country. Probably this idea extends all over -.he continent. Neither Germany nor France has any colony in the same positions tlio English colonies, and it is not to he wondered at that they find it difficilt to form any idea of the relation ve occupy towards the mother country. The people of France and Germany, and perhaps to some extent even the statesmen Of these countries, are apt to think of the colonies of Great Britain as placei which have to be garrisoned and governed, as their own possessions abroad have to be. They will learn better by-and-by. The telegram sent by Mr Reid, the Premier of New (South Wales, appearing lit the critical moment, was of vast importance, as teaching the wqtid what was the tru.h, and Dr. McDowell says that that message and the patriotic resolution passed at a public meeting in Auckland, contributed l, to impress upon the Germans that Great Britain and her colonies are indissolubly united." It will always be a subjpet of keen regret with New Zealanders that our Premier did not join in the telegram Sppt by Mr. Reid, or send a separate message on behalf of this colony. Dr. McDowell seems to think that the Germans look upon the British Empire with some suspicion, dreading that the day is not far distant when the mother country and the colonies " will arrange their commercial relations on a federal basis, to the disadvantage of foreign competition" That day may certainly be hastened by the outbreak of war, pr by such displays as that recently made by the Emperor of Germany.