ENGLAND’S TREATMENT OF ENEMY SUBJECTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1413, 19 June 1915, Page 4

ENGLAND’S TREATMENT OF ENEMY SUBJECTS.

TRIBUTE FROM A GERMAN. The Berliner Tageblatt publishes without comment a remarkable tribute to tbe kindness with which Germans in England are treated. The author of the article is a fine art publisher who only recently returned to Germany. He says:— "Hatred against Germany does not exist, and the great feeling of hatred that one encounters on arriving in Germany is quite foreign, and, indeed, is incompre-

hensible to the English. Lissauer’s song ol hate, the dreadful brooches inscribed with the words ‘God punish England,’ have not produced what one might call a gratifying effect from the German point of view. “Educated Englishmen with whom I spoke have a deep aversion for the fabulous being whom they call the War Lord, and who, they think, completely rules Germany, and of whose non existence even the best educated people cannot be convinced. Such people, however, as butchers, bakers, greengrocers, and workmen do not understand hatred between peoples, and see in the mighty war only a contest of two giants, Germany and England. “For the enemy, whom they now regard as beaten, they have only esteem. Both i and my relations, as well as mi melons German friends and acquaintances, have received from all classes nothing but frieudiy sympathy and exceeding politeness. An English fruiterer, who gave my son, going to Germany, a wonderful basket ot fruit, ‘enemy’ business friends, who overwhelm”d me with kindness dining a long illness, wentypical representative; of real public opinion. My English neighbour did everything he could to show attention to my family, and succeeded in obtaining a situation for my boy. “Still greater consideration an 1 friendliness were shown us by (be Home Office officials in lire numerous conversations I bad with regard to obtaining a permit to leave the country. No English official and no Englishmen with whom we had to ileal during tire days preceding our departure parted from us without the most cordial wishes for our journey. “Germans who go away may take with them any sum of money they like, though, of course, gold is prohibited. Not only do Germans receive kind words, but the tremendous amount of relief work which is undertaken for German prisoners as well as tor German women and children would not have been possible without the collaboration of the authoiities, and especially without the financial help of English people.”