Latest papers from home report san event which is singularly pleasing for, at the British Consulate-General in New York, there was recently presented a loving cup and silver medal to a German seaman, who in February 1914, took out a ship's boat in a maging sea and saved the captain and 24 members of a crew of a British oil steamer, the County of Devon, which had capsized. Owing to the outbreak of war in that year it was not possible to present to the heroic seaman those marks of appreciation which were his due, but recently he put into New York on a vessel and the opportunity was thus afforded of evincing our admiration of the brave men of peace. The presentation was made by the Consul-General in New York on the instructions of the British Government. There is in the whole business a remarkably healthy spirit, one which, developed as it should be, would do more for the ultimate peace of the world than any number of diplomatic arrangements. And it is a saying of the sea that England never forgets a "service rendered to a British s=" ject. PerWaps because of the mental effect of wide horizons and a healthier outlook on life. But, whatever it may be, out of all the well deserved dislike the Germans have brought on themselves the fact does emerge that Great Britain admires heroism, no matter when and by whom. displayed, and we venture to think that that German seaman who has inst been decorated is far more representative of his brotherhood than the U-boat commanders.
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