THE KAISER INTERVIEWED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4476, 17 February 1917, Page 5

THE KAISER INTERVIEWED.

MORE SILLY FLIM-FLAM

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, Feb. 16.

The World s Berlin correspondent states that during a visit to Vienna the Kaiser was interviewed by the playwright Hans Muller, who quotes' him as saying: “Look at the European neutrals. Read the Swedish answer, written as if for all eternity. Now neutrals know right well how they must estimate our strength, !ike_ wise our will to peace. For the first time in a certain sense the declared will of the small neutral States .stands-against the Anglo-Saxon world and Napoleon’s continental blockade from a phantom is becoming a reality, which will hit England harder than everything else heretofore. The goal is set. and things are going ahead.” ... Discussing Germany s peace otter> the Kaiser said: “This step had to be taken for now all the world knows who those are who impose continued miseries on humanity. It does not forget that it is the Entente which protects the murders of, the Archduke Ferdinand. On our side aie ligh and morality. To help these to be triumphant every shining weapon must be welcome to us.” The Kaiser discussed the drama as representative of kultur and hoped the poets would continue to draw on Germany’s past, and added that- from his earliest youth a few figures had followed him, such as lheordic King of Visigoths, Kaiser Freidnch the Second, and the Emperor Charles the * The Kaiser said to Muller, “Who know if Charles and .Luther had come together where the German nation wonkl he to-day.”