COMMERCE AND SEA POWER.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14334, 27 October 1910, Page 5

COMMERCE AND SEA POWER.

Marshal Hermes da Fonscca, Presi-dent-elect of Brazil, arrived in Berlin recently pui-ek--as ho declares in au interview—in 'tins capacity of a tourist. Two representatives of the German Foreign Office met liim at the station mid escorted liim to his hotel. Tho President-elect was in Germany two years apo, when he was Brazilian Minister of War, and attended the Imperial Army manoeuvres as the personal guest of tho Kaiser. Marshal da Fonseca. who visited Rbeirns, Paris. Tjausnnnej and Munich before coming to Berlin, insists that it is pleasure, not politics, which has brought him to Germany, but as ho is accompanied by Senhnr Souto, President of tho Brazilian Economic Union, it is thought, reports the "Daily Mail's correspondent, that bis visit is not altogether unconnected with the new Braailian-German commercial treaty. The President-elect declares that thfl two Brazilian States of Sao Paulo and Santa Catharina owe their flourishing condition largely to the fact that they are practicallv German. It is theSe "German Cojjwies" which the Pan- ! German Professor Schnnller, of thf : University of Berlin, %nH in mind when he expressed tho lielief in h'f | hook. "Commerce and iSen Power," I tlmt " a nation of 200 n»fllion Germane