EMPEROR, To-pay the Emperor William celebrates his fifty-second birthday, and the occasion will call for no less spontaneous celebrations among Germans in the Far East than in the Fatherland. By common consent Germany at the close of the past year occupied as high a station among the world's Great the has done at any time in the thirty years of her notable existence. Throughout the Empire, and nowhere more than in German possessions overseas, it is recognized that this proud position has been attained by a happy combination of the German people's virtues and abilities with the masterly direction iven to German affairs by the emperor William IT during the twenty-three years of his reign. A true perspective of German be ible for contemporary development in thee years may not observers, but it is diftcalt believe that the Emperor William's achievements, which have stood out s0 conspicuously in our own time, are not assured of an exalted and History. In the Far East Germans manent place in the Empire's
are conscious that their interests and affairs attract the special attention of their Sovereign, and the foehn, of close touch with the Home lan is to be emphasized in the near future by the visit of the Crown Prince. There can be little doubt that the initiative in regard to this visit rested with the Emperor William, and the greater the importance attached to His Imperial Highness's tour, the wider the appreciation of this additional illustration of the Emperor's foresight and statesmanship. Britons the world over, wherever they find themselves in' company with a German community to-day, will enter heartily and sincerely in their tributes to their Emperor.
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