GERMAN ANGLOPHOBIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11870, 23 January 1902, Page 5

GERMAN ANGLOPHOBIA.

ESSAGE FROM MB. CHAMBERLAIN.

THANKS FOR NEW ZEALAND'S CONFIDENCE.

[by telegraph.—press association.] Wellington, Wednesday. The Governor has received the following reply to the message forwarded to the Secretary of State conveying the'resolution

carried by a public meeting on Friday : . " The Government and the people of the United Kingdom gratefully appreciate the repudiation by a meeting of citizens of New Zealand, addressed by the Prime Minister, of slanders on the British forces in South Africa, and on the conduct of the war. The approval of the colony, which has shown such sacrifices for the Empire and its Sovereign, is a source of the greatest satisfaction to His Majesty's Government. I desire at the same time to express my personal thanks for the expression of confidence contained in the second resolution,—

(Signed) ChAJHJEELAIN." Palmebston North, Wednesday. The Borough Council last evening passed a resolution protesting against the coarse and false charges made by certain statesmen, and foreign press against the British and colonial troops in South Africa, and congratulating Mr. Chamberlain on his defence of the army. The resolution will be forwarded Home through the Premier.