The Feilding Star, Oraua & Kiwitea Counteis Gazette. Published Daily. SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1896. "THAT YOUNG MAN WILLIAM."

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 162, 11 January 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oraua & Kiwitea Counteis Gazette. Published Daily. SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1896. "THAT YOUNG MAN WILLIAM."

♦ Perhaps there lives no man in Europe who is better abused than the Emperor of Ger tua ny. That he has brought his troubles on himself no one dare attempt to deny. He has acted most treacherously towards England, while professing friendship. In this con; nection the Napier Telegraph says :— " This accounts for what the Euglish press was wondering at six months ago, when the journals wrote of the '■ apparent desire of Germany to assist Russia and France in isolating England in* the East, and of leading her to take such steps with regard to the Turkish difficulty.that sbe would find herself with the burden of settling the whole question lashed to her shoulders. '. Somewhat suspicious comments were made by some journals upon the facts, ' but others reported that it was absurd , to suppose that Germany could wish

harm to Great Britain. Possibly that I is so, but it is evidently the reverse of j absurd to credit the Emperor and his j advisers not only with a deadly hatred j of England, but also with an amount of mean and hypocritical duplicity without a parallel in history. He chose his time well. With an Ashantee trouble ; with an American trouble — possibly fomented by those who conspired with Kruger ; with all the trouble in the East, including the almost publicly-expressed intention of Bussia and France to attack British I interests involved in the settlement of j the Japanese war with China — the German Emperor no doubt concluded that he could insult the Mother Country with impunity. " If this conduct drives her to seek alliances he may find the reckoning an expensive business. __________