TRAINED TO HATE BRITAIN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9534, 5 July 1909, Page 7

TRAINED TO HATE BRITAIN.

ENGLAND AS GERMANS SEE IT. A CURSE TO THE REST OF THE WORLD. A New Zealander travelling oh the continent writes to the Christchurch "Press'* from a French health resort,, under date May 19, as follows :■— "On arrival here we were put ata table next to two Americans who arrived the same day, one from Vienna, and the other from New Yi.rL ' Their table waß only 2ft ftorn my back, so I heard all they snH. The one who had been in' Vknrta was UHing the other how all through Germany and Austria the young men are trained to hate ! British Empire. They openly said before the American tint the Empire should be destroyed, that individually English-were nice to meet, but as a nation they were a ■ curse to the rest of the world, and that Germany and Austria would certainly smash us as. soon, as they were ready to do so. "The American said that he had i always championed England. He took off his hat to the British Empire, which was the best and frsest in the world, but he ended: ,'I am afraid that Germany, Austria, and Italy will combine to smash her fleet, and where will Ehe be without her fleet?' "