THE KAISER AND ENGLAND.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7630, 23 January 1903, Page 4

THE KAISER AND ENGLAND.

The Kaiser has done and ssid many foolish things. But it is difficult (writes tho London correspondent of the Argus) to believe the story of the respectable National Review, that when he was iv Norway a short time ago he visited an American yacht, and in the course of his gossip among the passengers launched out into tbe most violent attacks upon England and her Government-, end reserved his " sorongest abuse for Kir-g Edward, who was discusstd in language which it is not possible for us to reproduce." The statement is said to come from " a creditable Amedcnn source," but we need Lot believe it. The Kaker has never bean known lo share ihe Anglophobe hostility of many of his subjects. On the cmtrary, ha is often assailed by the German papers for being too English. And I should think the Inst person to whom Le would use di-graceful language is the King of England, especially to a crowd of unknown excursionists. It is surprising the National Review, chough it always seems jaundiced wheu it discusses Germany, should have published such a yarn. But there is annoyance, and very great annoyance, in another direction. The official correspondence, published this week, upon Germany's diplomatic dishonesty in regard to Shanghai has caused great indignation in official and political circles. According to current opinion, German methods in China, as now revealed, Lave completely discounted any good that was done iv public estimation by the Kaiser's recent visit to England. Nothing in the records of Russian duplicity is worse than the trick which Germany endeavoured to play, and'which Sir E. Satow and Lord Lansdowue so promptly ex- ' posod and disavowed. j