28 FEBRUARY 1903, Page 14

RACIAL ANIMOSITY.

[To THE EDTTOE OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The German Navy League's travelling cinematograph entertainment, to which all classes and ages flocked last autumn, consisted of,—(1) scenes of life in the German Navy; (2) illustrations of the relative strengths of the German and English Navies ; (3) scenes of Boer generals on tour effusively welcomed by German ladies and kissing babies on balconies; while the explanatory lecture made frequent emphatic reference to England's " grausame Politik." The audiences were not backward in drawing the obvious inference: " We must get a Navy strong enough to crush cruel England and deliver the poor Boers."—I am, Sir, &c.,

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