The daily Alaskan., 1908-10-19
OUR GEORGE IS THEIR GEORGE

 New Zealand and Australia and by the people of those countries been received and ieted with so enthusiasm so sincere and genuine that It has rung clear and stonR above that of all other places visited our own. It will be noted in this connectIou-su the world has noticed It-that the ships of war Of America went away down there direct from America, with DO stops not necessary, and by special and earnest Invitation from those distant people, The manner Of the reception was SO different" that all the world has lifted l,s eyebrows aud taken on "the pale cast Of thought" All the world sees some deep meaning In the fact that half 8 million people stood all night on the heldlands under the shin lnE Southern cross, looking out to sea with the chance of being first to see the dArkening shadow on the skY-'ine that would signal the coming Of these ships of war, which they meant to well come with so much joy. All the world understands the significance Of the strange event-that 1t meant a sort of swearing of eternal friendship without the taking of formal osth-which is 8 way of forming bond that binds rather than merely irets, as is the case with the written kinda bond against h common Understood but not stated menace.
 And now the fleet has returned and is today paying it's respects to aud being Ieted by Japan with prOdigal display Of goodwill. One of the manifestations ot good will according 70 the program AE least) was the lining up so far as pos sIbls of the entire naval strength Of the Mikado, a display of strength greater than that Of the visitors. A force al most As strong went far out to ses-or was to go fl not prevented by the storms that have prevslled-to meet the Am orleans. There is every expression Of good will being shown today and to be reported every day of the stay over there and then the fleet will come away with, also, from Japan, God. l speed for the departing guests. But the world marks the distinction | lu the difference" referred to. Those English colonies away down In thu south seas are divided from their kind by thousands of miles Of ocean, their nearest neIghbors are dark OrIentsls 10 sWsrmlng millions. These colonies are young and ambitious but unequal 10 this condition and deeply feel their | isolation. Far away as Euglsnd is | they are further away from America but America is on their side Of the | hemisphere, st least, and they "feel that they know us better" I5 is this | that made them press their invitation upon us and 10 express their | keen pleasure at our acceptance. This spirit is breathing all through the 'Flset-VisIt-Number" Of the Auckland l Weekly News which has come to hand just AS the fleet is entering the harbor Gs Yokohama. This Is la'ge 6S.page | edition Illustrated iu handsome shape 1 and with great double page pictures of the feet, pictures of exciting street scenes showing a city buried in bunt- Ing and flying from the housetops banners of welcome that were sent from every town aud hamlet in the | islands. This paper, in it's mere sp- pearance, is token oi what the people Of New Zealand feel the visit to mean to them. But few paragraphs from It's "FOreword" will better convey an Idea than sll the many words that tha host oF DaysDaDer and rnagazins correspondents have flooded us with. This, for instance-this IS the opening word:
 "The visit to New Zealand of some of war vessels of the United States is ss great sn event in our history as vas the 6rst visit of the intrepid voy- ,gar Hapteip COoL IT. pead uok he |