THE KAISER’S INTERVIEW.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2358, 26 November 1908, Page 5

THE KAISER’S INTERVIEW.

STRONG EXPRESSIONS. THE ENGLISH ARE MAD. United Press Association. Copyright PERTH, Nov. 25. The niail brings the text of the interview with the Kaiser, published in the Daily Telegraph of October 28tli, which caused such a sensation. In the course of conversation, the Kaiser said, “You English arc mad, mad as March hares. What has come over you that you are so completely given over to suspicions quite unworthy of a groat nation? Wnat more can I do than I have done? I declared with all the emphasis at my command, in my speech at the Guildhall, that my heart is set on peace, and that it is one of my dearest wishes to live on the best terms with England. Havo I ever been false to my word ? Falsehood and prevarication arc alien to my nature. Actions ought to speak for themselves, but you listen not to them, but to those who misinterpret and distort them. That is a personal insult, which I feel and resent. To be for ever misjudged, to have my repeated offers of friendship weighed and scrutinised with jealous and mistrustful eyes, taxes my patience severely. I have said time after time that I am the friend of England, and your press, or at least a considerable section of it, bids the people of England to refuse, my proffered hand, and insists that the other hold-; a dagger. How can I convince the nation against its will? I repeat that I am t-lic friend of England, but you make things difficult for me. My task is not the easiest. The prevailing sentiment among largo sections of the middle 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 it is in England with respect to Germany.”