KAISER INTERVIEWED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3006, 17 February 1917, Page 9

KAISER INTERVIEWED

THE BLOCKADE

WILL HIT ENGLAND HARD

New York, February 15. Tlie "World's" Berlin correspondent states that during his yisit to Vienna, the Kaiser was interviewed by the playwright Hans Mueller, who quotes him as saying : "Look at the European neutrals! Read the Swedish answer, writton as if for all eternity! Now the neutrals know right well how they must estimate our strength; likewise our will to peace! For the first time, in a. certain sense, tlie declared will of the small neutral States stands against tljo Anglo-Saxon world, and Napoleon's Continental blockade; from a phantom, is becoming a reality, which will hit England harder than everything else heretofore. Tho goal is set, and tilings are going ahead." Discussing the German peace offer, tlie Kaiser said: "This step had to lie taken, for liow all the world knows who those are who impose continued miseries on humanity. _ Does one forget it is the Entente which protects the murderers of the Arcliduko Ferdinand? On our side are right and morality, and to help these to triumph must every shining weapon be welcome to us." - Tho Kaiser discussed the drama as the representative of "Kultur," and said ho honed poets would continue to draw on Germany's past.. Ho added that from his earliest youth few figures had followed him in such a way as had Thcodoric. Kiuf of the Visigoths, Kaiser Friedrich IT, and tlie Emperor Charles V. . , The Kaiser snid to Herr Mueller: "Who knows, if Charles and Luther had como together, where-the Gorman nation would ho to-day?"—Aus.-N.55. Cablo Assn.