THE TEXT OF HIS REMARKS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 25 November 1908, Page 2

THE TEXT OF HIS REMARKS.

(Recoived 10.30 a.m.) PERTH, Wednesday. Sh'd English mail brings the text of the interview with the Kaiser, published by the "Daily Telograph" on October 28th, which recently caused such a sensation. In the course of conversation the Kaiser Baid: — "Yon English are mad — mad as march hares. What has come over you that you are so completely given over to suspicions quite unworthy of a great nation?' What more can Ido than I have done? I declared with all emphasis at my command in my speech at the Guildhall that my heart is set upon peaco, and that it wvs one of my dearest wishes to live on the best terms with England. Havo I ever been false to my word? Falsehood and prevarication are alien to my nature. My actions ought to speak for themselves; but you listen not to them,_but to those who misinterpret and distort them. That is a personalinsult which I feel and lesent. To "be for ever misjudged, to have my repeated offers of friendship weighed and scrutinised with Jealous, mistrustful eyes, taxes my patience severely. I have said time after time that I am a friend of England, and your press, or at least a considerable section of it, bids the people of Engand refuse my proferred hand and insinuates that the other holds a dagger. How can I convince a nation against its will? I repeat that I am a friend of England; but you make things difficult for me. My task is not the easiest. The prevailing sentiment among largo sections of the middlo and lower classes of my own people is not friendly to England. I am, therefore, so to speak, in a minority in my own land; but it is a minority of the- best elements, just as in England wth respect to Germany. "