SUPPRESSED KAISER INTERVIEW.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 76, 27 February 1918, Page 3

SUPPRESSED KAISER INTERVIEW.

BRITAIN TO LOBE 'LARGE COLONIES." EGYPT EAR-MARKED FOR GERMANY. (Daily Chronicle). New York, December 17. The New York Tribune publishes a long and prominent article about tlio suppressed interview of the Kaiser with Mr William Bayard Hale, the American writer, in July, 1908. The interview was suppressed at the time by the strenuous efforts of the German authorities, although it had been set lor publication by the Century Magazine.

The Tribune asserts that, despite German efforts, one copy of the interview exists, and proves that the portions of the interview which leaked out were right in the main points, despite strong and accepted denials. While refraining from publishing the full interview, the Tribune gives the points. I The summary of the interview, which was given on the yacht Hohenzoilcrn off Bergen, includes the following points:— That King Edward had been humiliating the Kaiser for more than two years, that he was exas- ! perated that Germany was the paramount power in Europe, and that England was trying to neutralise that power. '■ That he held France in the hollow of his hand, and Russia was of no account since the Japanese war. That if a pan-Eupropean war was inevitable the sooner it came the better, because he was ready and tired of the suspense. j Berlin had been a decadent nation since the victory in South . Africa, because hers was an un- j righteous and ungodly cause. ' j That the Angla-Japanese alliance was iniquitous against all white races, and the only way to counteract it was for Germany and America to act together at an early date. " j That England would lose many large colonies, especially in the Pacific. All the Kaiser would take for Germany would be Egypt, though ho would liberate the Holy Land from the yoke of the infidel. J That the perfecting of the Zep- j pelins would give Germany a power- i ful war advantage. I The Kaiser also bitterly attacked the Roman Catholic Church. j The Tribune in the introduction to the article, states that the Kaiser was seated on the deck of the yacht when he talked to Mr Hale. "His Majesty talked long—for two hours, j He had dined well but not wisely, and ! his words came with a rush, and they i had a string to them. He was an Emperor, but more than that he was , a human being, and as all human beings are wont at times to do, he was unburdening his heart, telling what was on his mind, venting his long-pent-up spleen, airing his hatreds." The interview was suppressed through the efforts of the German Foreign Office. Hale offered it to the New. York Times, hut was forestalled by the German Embassy and the paper refused it. The Century Magazine paid £2OO for it, and it was printed and ready for publication, hut was finally suppressed when the Century owners were convinced by German diplomats I in the United States that it .might cause war. Later, in 1914, the Century again wanted to print it, but Bernstorff was horrified at its possible effect on the Catholics, particularly of Italy and Austria, and the magazine withheld publication, after President Wilson's ■neutrality stand. It is expected that the interview will he fully published in the future.