GERMAN IN NEW ZEALAND.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2514, 15 July 1915, Page 6

GERMAN IN NEW ZEALAND.

Sir, —If you ivill be so good as to publish tho enclosed letter from tho "Spectator," it 'may, I think, .not only help to convince New Zealanders of tbe> possibility of a common feeling, among all residents in the Dominion, hut may in especial lielp to reassure those of our fellow-countrymen who, 'originally of another .nationality,- yet feel as 0110 with tho; rest- of us in all that concerns the- welfare of tho State. Should any qualms of doubt assail them as to any seeming disloyalty _to their ancestors, this letter may bring .them some comfort and encouragement toy showing at least that it is the natural attitude for them to take as citizens of their, adopted country.—l am; etc., • L. E. BIRCH. ■ . (Enclosure.) ' ''GERMANS IN CANADA'. ; "(To tho Editor of the "Spectator.") "Sir;—l 'think that your readers will be interested in the following passage of a letter just received an observant and trustworthy .. friend, Who has bfeen visiting Canada on business 1 When I wrote you last I told you how very patriotic-. Canada is. I told you that tlie.v had started to. raise 'a ,fund of. one hundred thousand dollars in Toronto, and had made it a million. The Prime Minister told me they had .raised a patriotic, fund that now exceeded five millions, in Canada. A' iiian_ I met from Braiitford told mo that his little town of. ten thousand peoplo had beaten all the others. . They had subscribed one hundred thousand dollars to tho patriotic fund. • I never i saw any community in which tho. determination was so conspicuously manifest as there, to thrash, Germany, until they have > broken' up this Prussian, military spirit; that is seeking -to. enslave the world. There is a little German town in Canada 'called! Berlin. It is a community of three or- four people. Even their patriotic fund was unusually large, which oil goes to show you,, when people emigrate and got away from' military traditions such as exist in Eurhow quickly they imbibe that keen spirit of liberty.-which seeks to. allow others to live their own life without dictation from' any clique-and sect.' This practical condemnation .of Prussian policy by Germans in Canada is surely full of/significance.—l am,'sir, etc., "\V. E. GARRETT FISHER,"