THE EMDEN

Southland Times, Issue 20793, 6 June 1929, Page 5

THE EMDEN

A PUBLIC RECEPTION. STAND OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, June 5. A meeting presided over by Mr Langguth, formerly Austrian Consul, appointed committees for entertaining the officers and crew of the Emden. Mr Langguth said it had come as a surprise 1o him that the German. Consul for New Zealand had requested the Auckland City Council not 1o hold a civic reception and it might be inferred that, the officers and crew did not desire a civic reception. This was not so. The Consul’s action, he considered, had been a mistake and was even deserving of censure. Guarantees towards the cost of the reception, about £6O, were given in the room and private cars were offered for excursions. Mr Bernard Martin, one of three members of the League of Nations Union present, stated that -the League proposed to extend courtesies to the cruiser's captain as the representative of a Power which was a member of the League. Exactly what form these would take had not yet been decided. WELLINGTON R.S.A. TO PLAY NO PART IN RECEPTION. Wellington, June 5. The Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association has decided to take no part, in any public or civic reception to the crew of the German warship Emden during its visit to New Zealand. "They are coming and going so far as we are concerned,” the president, Colonel G. T. Hall, said to-day.