COURTESIES TO EMDEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 673, 27 May 1929, Page 8

COURTESIES TO EMDEN

Sir.— Reports have appeared in the local Press regarding courtesies to be extended on the occasion of the visit of this German war vessel. I submit that the gathering of the returned soldiers, together with the public who desired to do homage to our fallen heroes on Anzac Pay, is sufficient answer to the question; and the answer is; “Courtesies, nil.” In the name of God. let us be sincere; and, voicing, as I feel I am, the sentiments of the great majority of those who gave freely in the cause of right against might, both with men—the flower of our manhood —and money, I say let us remember the debt we owe to our own kith and kin, who sleep in Flanders, ‘where poppies grow,” and elsewhere —victims to “The Pay.” But after the Day there’s a price to pay For the sleepers under the sod. And He you have mocked for many n day. Listen, and hear what He 7ms to say, “Vengeance is .Mine, T will repay.” What can you say to God? K. STANBOROUGH - STEPH EN S. Auckland.