Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-27
ALL ENGLAND PLEASED
With Reception Given Prince
Louis of Battenburg.
Special camegram to The Star.

| Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON November 21.-The people of
England have been greatly pleased by the
reception given in America to Rear Admiral
/ Prince Louis of Battenburg. Private let
tiers and public kilograms received from Off
! GERS and men indicate that never before
i have they received a reception so royal as
| that given by the people of New York city.
| Not even during the palmiest days of the
| celebration of the new entente between En-
| gland and France, when the British fleets
| visited the shores of France and when the
! French fleets visited the shores of England,
/ has there been anything TO compare with
! the Hands across the sea- sentiment as
manifested in the recent fraternal celebra-
| tons in New York. In tne case of tie IN
| terchange of courtesies between the French
and the English, though of course the
officers could make themselves understood
| most of them being able to speak French,
while the French officers as general tnlns
! could speak English, this ability TO eS
| change ideas did not extend to the rank ana
| file. In way the English sailors may have
! had a good time while In France, but they
naturally did not feel as much at home as
though they had been able to speak COM
| mon language.
The same thing was undoubtedly true OF
| the French sailor visitors in England Inc
same idea was expressed in connection with
the visit of Prince Henry and his German
sailors in the United States several years
| ago. Then too, when the Eng1sh salioF
visits foreign ports he generally has the
Z time of his life when he buries himself IN
| large cities. Though the English visitors
| to France and the French visitors 10 En-
| gland were great succeSses-though the
| French officers We're able to visit London
and the English officers were as general
| thing able to visit Paris, the ordinary SAIL
ors were not able to visit these great capt.
tnlS Eve VII able
| these great cities, in exceptional cases. they
| felt lost because they could not return TO
| their ships at the end OF shore lesve VI
| for the purpose of sleeping nights In
| other words the sailors city of refuge,
| the ship was many, many miles away ana
| the visitors could not help but feel this.
Visit May Be Repeated.
| Hence it was that the ability to sail right
! into New York harbor and take the city
| by storm. as all accounts received on thls
| side of the water would seem to indicate
| was what happened appears TO nave le1t
| its impression on the visitor sailors. In
| greater or less degree the same thlns ap-
| pears to have happened in connection with
| the visit to Canada. So successful mas tiiis
trip of the second cruiser squadron 10 the
other SIDE OF the Atlantic proved that IS
not likely to be the last of similar eXpeoi-
| tons and the English sailors and even the
| officers of the admiralty, who nave remain
e,
| hone that an American squadron will pay
| a visit to London in the not far distant III.
| ture in order that the people of England
| NAV show to them touches of genuine En-
glish hospitality.
Commenting upon the visit of the prince
| to America in general though with more
| especial reference to the Canadian end Oh
| the trip the London Times says:
Rear Admiral Prince Louis of Batten-
berg, commanding the second cruiser squad
ron has completed his visit to Canada ana
that hearty hospitality which the Americans
so well know how to give. Our cruiser
squadron arrived from Halifax six hours
before schedule time in consequence OF
speed trials on the way, resulting IN the
satisfactory average Of eighteen kno1s'
That exhibition of naval sinartness is being
fully appreciated by the people OF the
United States. 1t was on August IL tnat
Prince Louis landed in Quebec, so that the
| soiourn of the squadron in Canadian waters
| approached to a duration OF three months
From every point of view the visit to can
| ada has been an unqualified success, THANKS
| to the enthusiastic and equal loyalty alike
| of the English and French populations,
| who, from the inception of the program OF
| welcome in Quebec to the end of the Visl9'
have We'd with each other in marking their
sense of its significance and their pride In
the imperial navy. That, indeed is only
| what would have been predicted by any
| one understanding the completeness OF the
| harmony with which both races display
| their patriotic pride in their common coun-
| try and in its position as an integral por-
| ton of the British empire.
"If there turks In any quarter a remnant
| of the old racial prejudice 1t cannot survive
| the entente cordiale which now united the
nations from which they are respectively
descended. But, as a correspondent re
| minded US the other day, the common senti-
| ments awakened by the Nelson celebration,
| in which all Canada Joined with extraordi-
| nary enthusiasm were active hundred
years ago
Awakened Patriotism.
This visit cannot fail to quicken both
sides the sentiments which bind the en-
| pire together. Our sailors have seen more
| fully than could otherwise have been pos
sibe the great and prosperous colony which
| 1t is part of their duty to defend. They
| have seen not only its ports, but as re-
| CARDS many of them something of its in
terror for considerable detachment found
| a hearty welcome in Ottawa. What Is bet
| ter even than seeing the country, Is the
personal acquaintance they have made with
| Its people. On the other hand. the Cana
| dian people have had the pleasure and the
| satisfaction of seeing with their own eyes
portion of the powerful navy which not in
| stationary detachmentS, but as a Strateg-
| ically handled whole. is the ultimate safe
| guard of their liberties. Prince Louis as
| sured them with perfect accuracy that their
! interests had never been better looked af
| ter by the admiralty than now, and that
| the British naval forces had never been so
| advantageously placed for safeguarding the
| interests of the empire, not only on the
| American continent, but throughout the
| world Such assurances derive added force,
| not otherwise attainabIe, from the actual
| presence of a powerful squadron which
| quickens the Imagination and renders 1t
easier to conceive that power which
guards Canada no less than the mother
| country. From that quickened apprehen-
| sion, coupled with the knowledge that the
| British colonies the objects of lively
| envy and desire. we may hope for fuller
| understanding of the burden now almost
| exclusively borne by the mother country.
| Such visits, as Prince Louis said at Hall
fax, are to be regularly repeated during
| that portion of the year which the former
| permanent squadron used to spend in the
| northern port Of the North American and
| West India snl1adron