WITH THE ENEMY

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13861, 23 April 1917, Page 7

WITH THE ENEMY

CLUMSY INTRIGUE IN AMERICA. THE MISSION WHICH JAILED, (Auseralian and N.Z. Cable Association) LONDON, "Api'il - 20. Mr J. St. L, Strachcv, editor and proprietor of The Spectator, makes in i hat journal a remarkable revelation of the purpose of the 'visit of-Prince Henry of Prussia to the United States in 1002 The Kaiser became alarmed (it the betfer feeling growing up between Britain nnd America ami sent Prince Henry to' capture American goodwill',' The Specfator in an article on March Ist, 1902, expressed the opinion that ' Prince Henry would maket: pa me political re-. finest, and Mr J0)111 Hay, Secretary of State for the United States, -immediately wrote Mr Straphey /(\vho was a close personal friend) a Ifttor of;five trords: "You are a mind reader," •

Mr Strachey adds:''"■!, Hail guessed that Prince Henry was a political bagman, mid wanted a tangible souvenir in , the form of concessions of territory," • llr Hay later told me he had received fhe German'overtures with disgust. During the Spanish-American war a German diplomatist in London asked Mr Hay to arrange for the eesfion of a portion of the Philippine ' Islands to the Kaiser, and said; '*You' have so many islands, why not give us some." 'Mr Hay replied: "Not an island; not one," . : ■ - .