GERMANY ALARMED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2392, 6 January 1909, Page 2

GERMANY ALARMED.

A SUPPRESSED INTERVIEW

The cablegrams recently made reference to an interview with the Lei - mail Kaiser which was to have. appeared in the .“Century Magazine, but which was suppressed at the instance of the German Government m consequence of the intense public resentment that was aroused by the Kaiser’s published interview with a representative of the ‘Dailv lelo-o-raph.” It is stated in the London Journals that the. German Government took action in the matter not so much because of any possibility ot further straining the diplomatic situation in Europe as from a fear that the interview might be regarded in as a defiance of public opinion by’ .its ruler. Mr. William Bayard Hale, who obtained the interviewv ha's : been a clergyman and a theological writer, and is now * member of the staff of the “New York Times.” He met the Kaiser on board the yacht Hohenzollefn .in Bergen last July, and had an audience lasting nearly two hours. Ho subsequently submitted the interview to the German Foreign Office with a request that the department would authorise its publication in the “New YorkTimes.” The Foreign Office refused to .assent to the appearance of the interview in any newspaper, but after all reference to international matters had been struck out it agreed that it should be published in the form of an article in a magazine. Then came the outburst of public indignation in regard to the other interview, and the proprietors of the “'Century Magazine,” to whom the article had been entrusted, were induced not to. publish it. It is stated that the interview contained a eulogy of President Roosevelt and quoted the Kaiser’s opinions on subjects so diverse as the Roman Catholic Church, the" true mission of wealth, architecture,. Christianity and war. It is small wonder , that the statesmen at the head of Gorman affairs were alarmed at,the prospect of the Kaiser being allbwed -to announce in a foreign publication: bis views on topics that are so ant to be discussed on the personal plane.