GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11370, 1 September 1908, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

■ .J,.,'A MERCANTILE QUESTION. (Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright. ) (Received September 1, 8.15 a.m.) . / LONDON, August 31. Sixty .merchants, are. leaving Warsaw for London to 'establish intercourse with •English manufacturers in consequence of a. boycott of German goods.

That Anglophone .flourishes in Germany is borne out in a« convincing mannerby a letter .received, in Wellington of which the. following, (says the Dominion), is an extract .—"Tlie following .circumstance' has recently come to my notice, as a method of the manner . iii which the German Navy . League works. There is. a | sriiall .collecting box made .iii 'the shape of a ship; and painted the color of tlie -Gerniiin flag. It is supP. ufe<l . '*? schools, and ev^'ry owner of, one ; is supposed to put a, certain pev^ centage of his pocket money into it. It is generally possessed by school children, and is passed round or offered with the 'remark ,*'Gieb hierdein Geld, dass v wir die Eriglander tuchtig schlagen (Give here your money, m that we can Ihorouglily smash the English). - My correspondent asks why the English Navy League cannot start a similar box, so that we may not . risk a'^smashirig. ' I am far 'from wishing to advocate' anything . such as this, but I Wish, if • possible; to show you the feeling^that is undoubtedly gaming ground L n n . 6rman y- Unfortunately % they cannot/ believe that this, country will not attack them.' They measure our statesmen by their own Standard, and consequently expect to be broken up, before they have fan [opportunity, of building a fleet- to defendytheriiselves. It is this ' fear on their part which makes the danger 'in tbov situation." -"-.' "- '.-