BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12409, 26 November 1908, Page 3

BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

. THE -• KAISEK'S INTERVIEW. • 1 1'ltESS A.SSOCTATrON-'-CorYniGHT.] Pt?rCh, Nor. 25. Tho Brifcis'i imil brings the text of too ' interview witii tiio Kni3er, published by the " Daily Telegraph 1 / oa Ootober 23tb, whioa receutlj caused sucb. a sensation. In tbe course of conversation the Kaiser said:— "You English are mad — mad as inarch hares. What has come over you tnat you. are. sc oompletely given over to suapicions quite unworthy of a --great nation? , What more can I do than I have do'n'e?> 1 declared with all emphasis at my command in my speech at the Guildhall that my heart is sot upon peaca, and that it was ono of my dearest wishes to live on the best terms with England Have I ever been false to- my word? Falsehood and pvavarication are alien-^ to my nature My actions ought to speak for ttiemselve ; but to those wfco misinterpret and distort tbern. Thnt is a . personal ijisult which ..1, ieol and resent. To b 3 for ever misjudged, to have my rep3ated offers of friendship weighed and scratiDised with jaaloua, mistrustful eyes, taxes my patience severely. I have said time after time tbat 1 am a fxiand of England, and your press, or at least a considerable section of it, bi<ls the' 1 , people 0f ... -England .'refuse my' proffered hand, and insinuates that the other holds a dagger How can I convince a nation against its will? 1 repeat, that I am a friend of England, but. you make things difficult for me. My task is aob the easiest. Tho prevaiilng sentiment i"mong large sections of tbe middle and lower classes of my own people is nott friendly to England. I am, therefore, sobs speak, ia a jtninDrifcyin my own l.md; but it is a aiinority cf the best elements, just as in England with respect to Germany." >