ANOTHER INTERVIEW WITH THE KAISER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11863, 29 May 1909, Page 5

ANOTHER INTERVIEW WITH THE KAISER.

' A'n interview is reported to have ta'keri place between the Kaiser and a representative of Shipping Truth. The Kaiser is reported to . have said :■*— "You English make the one big mistake of always imagining my people ore seeking to spoil your trade supremacy on the seas. All my people want is a share of it — of course, as large a one as possible. ' That I and niy people are sincerely desirous, of having nothing Vbut the amicable relationship with the En'gli^h people may not be be-* lieved in your criuntry,i but/we are lised to being misunderstood. It is ' strange, ajnd a source Oi| great regret to me, that notwithstanding all my protestations, arid the official statements of , my ministers, it should still be possible that yjour 'people should cherish .so' deeply Hostile an attitude to iriy •people iri their 'wade relations. .Why .should, your people ifnagihe that,; by some/ Divine -.Right' tlie over-sea carrying trade Apt the world lias beeri specially entfug'ted tb theiri. "to tlie exclusion of all "Other nations' in general, and the Fatherland in lar? 'Amyl not to be excused for think'mg that, your shipowners' hatred of bur gjjreat mercantile marine is, solely based oA' their 'fpar^of -'.losing 'still more of the world's- carrying . trade;' 'owing to rtiy people's belief knbwledge of 'how to Sori'duct 'itj . their better equipped ships 1 ' rid their eoriteijtedness to Ripply every tjraosit facility at a "minimum of /cost? Yoii ask trie to/what I attribute 'the, universal * hostility- of your • shipowners. ' to! my people's competition,- <AU -cbrh^etilion is 'disliked, by 'those Svhoyhave to afreet it; Hut. your. shipQWriers;are-ahg^y because theuvd^ys' of-^ ten, .|weiity, and thirty years ago are'; gone irorii them , for etye'r; . Then ' they made great ymofits^ e&tprtipnate . propls. - \ ""VJ7hy,- yoiv -English people 'ought to/thank iriy peopie«rfor the' Very \ competition; ot , which " jjou '"'cp'm* plain./ It no*!' Teduced transit' costs to you ahd all other- nations as^they Oeyer would - otherwise .have: been, reduced.. But , N 'you iEnglish,*', you , arb ~ selfish . arid sjaspiciou's; arid you, riijtke the'hiistake of not so ericOritagiri|g ypur. shipping men, by State assistance ".^aiici . by yhonbring your patriotic bries^ so that there shall be some other : aim-ioy them than mere money gain^ .^ou see, I ,am generous) for in telliftg/ yoii this; .1 tell you the seci'fet ' o f the development ■ of ' niy people-' s mercantile ppWer/oriytli^; sehsl ' .-1"