KAISER ON GERMAN TRADE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 October 1913, Page 4

KAISER ON GERMAN TRADE.

A declaration by the Kaiser of his determination to protect German trade, made at Lubeck last month, has been widely published in the English press. The Kaiser said the German merchant could rightly take credit to himself and he ctesired to express his thanks for the spirit of brotherhood and dourage with which the towns of the North German coast had worked to secure for German industry a place in the world which other nations might well envy. This year the whole nation was celebrating the centenary of its del||&rance from the Corsican. This was also the year of his own jubilee, and the coincidence had been decreed by Heaven. His Majesty concluded:—"Wo enjoy a time of peace w-hen we observe how, in the south-east of our Continent, there has been the thunder of fierce struggles which, by God's decree, have left us untouched. I stand before you "here, gentlemen, in the uniform of a sailor —the dress of the child of my making, and that which can help me bo give nowVdnd in the ■future, the. necessary strength and the'necessary protection to the German merchant, that he may keep the place in the sun which belongs to him. I protect the merchant. His enemy is my enemy. God grant that German trade may develop as hitherto under His protection in time of peace.' 1