GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 815, 17 March 1910, Page 3

GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

BkrUN, March 14.

Prince Henry of Prussia, speaking at the Fast Asiatic Society’s banquet at Hamburg, said they left Britain (the Prince and Princess Henry of Prussia recently visited the King and Queen of Fhigland) with grateful hearts for the hospitality, affection, and frankness shown to them. '.lnch qualities were the foundation whereon their life aud their Kuglisti cousins' rested. The visit to Britain had been in an absolutely unofficial capacity, but he had spoken with many influential personages, aud he assured his hearers that Britain offered Germany an honourable and sincere friendship. The idea of aggressive action was completely absent from the minds of the Government circles in Britain, but the friendship rested on reciprocity, and nothing must be omitted in serving to strengthen it. Confidence begets confidence. Germany has fought shoulder to shoulder with the British in the Far East, and has learned to respect them. Their interest could be best promoted by reciprocal confidence. The officers of the Navy were sincere in their friendly feelings aud merchants, like military aud naval officers could be comrades, aud have a social duty to discharge.