ANTI-GERMAN FEELING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18019, 18 February 1922, Page 10

ANTI-GERMAN FEELING.

AUSTRALIAN INCIDENT.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

SYDNEY, Feb. 7. That anti-German feeling is still running high in certain parts of Australia has just been demonstrated in South Australia, many districts of which are thickly populated with Germans, or people of German descent, At Port Victoria, a Lutheran Church service had been advertised to be hold, and concern was aroused among returned soldiers and others so soon as this fact was made known. The result was that about 30 young men gathered in front of the institute and discussed the question of preventing the service, the feeling boing that the Lutherans should not bo allowed control of a building in which were bung the honour roll and photographs of the fallen soldiers, It is stated that when Pastor Hoopmann and members of his congregation arrived the doors ! of the instituto were locked, and no one | knew where to find the keys. After some i delay the door leading to the back room I was forced open, and preparations were | made for the service. So soon as the first

hymn was begun a crowd, beaded by returned soldiers, entered singing the National Anthem and "The Song of Australia," and completely drowned the efforts of the worshippers. Much was said on both sides, and the returned men finally agreed to let the service be continued on that day without further disturbance on the condition that another service would not bo held in the future.