GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9994, 15 March 1910, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

PRINCE HENRY OF RUSSIA

A REASSURING SPEtfCH

Received March 14, 10 p.m.

BERLIN, March 14,

Prince Henry of Prussia, speaking at the East Asiatic Society's ban'quet st Hamburg, said they left Britain (the Prince anl Princess Henry of Prussia recently visited the King and Queen of England) with grateful hearts for the hospitality, affection, and frankness shown to them. Such qualities were the foundation whereon their life and their English cousins' rested. The visit to Britain had been in an absolutely unofficial capacity, but he had epoken with many influential personages, and he assured his hearers that Britain ottered 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, had fought shoulder to shoulder with the British in the Par East, and bad learned to respect them. Their interest could be best promoted hy reciprocal confidence. The officers of the Navy were sincere in their friendly feelings, and merchants, like military and naval officers could be comrades, and lad a social duty to discharge.