"I think to-day here marks an end ind a beginning. It is an end to this after-ihe-war malady of misunderstanding which has been through very long convalescent period, but I think to-day, any way in Shanghai, there has been a cure, It is the beginning of a new understanding and fellowship which will be kept healthy by the sane, and, I think Tam right Im saying, the middle-aged commonsense of ex-Service men of both nationalities. That is all I have say, for T do not think this is an occasion for speech-making, but for hand-shaking. Gentlemen, the Leader of New Germany; The toast to the Fuhrer was acknowledged no less enthusiastically than had been that to His Majesty, and thereafter the company gave themselves up to renewing old and making new with H.MS. Lowestott's well-trained and versatile chott filling in gape by leading a species of Anglo-German community singing of war songs which had an appeal to both.
Shanghai has witnessed few more successful evenings.
Comrade to Comrade At a signal from Col. Kricbel, an orchestra played the British and then the German national anthem, the Germans giving the Nazi salute to both and singing their own in chorus. Tt was an "impressive observation. Col. Knobel then, speaking first in English and afterwards in' German, "Comrades, as the oldest German soldier of the Great' War here in Shanghai, and in the name of my German ' fellow-countrymen, I wish to thank you for accepting the invitation to this meeting. of world war veterans of both Great Britain and Germany with her allies. We have come together in the spirit of that noble soldier, His Royal "Highness the Prince of Wales, and of our German leader, Adolf Hitler.
"Men who fought for their country, who readily offered blood and fe for the highest purpose, to-day stretch out their hands fo their former foes. We German soldiers have the deepest respect for British bravery. We believe the day is a proaching when all the manly virtues of the great nations who participated in the war will unite them with us in the noble and peaceful Purpose of working hand in hand for the "undisturbed happiness of our
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