GERMANY AND AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 88, 2 April 1908, Page 3

GERMANY AND AMERICA.

THE HILL IXCIDKXT. Xew Vi.rk, March :il. The German Ambassador at Washington declares lliat the Hill incident arose J through a gossipy distortion of a ea,na! tonvcraation. There has been no eTian-e in tile Kaiser'* attitu.le towards Hill. Nevertheless public feeling in America W P»rturl*d.

Tie Xew York World -,iys this iiulistrttion of the Kaiser's in like li'u Krugcr fckgram and his Tangier speech, the constiiuence of which was a scare lo Europe. These iu addition to the Tweedniouth letter and Hill's affair Blight convince the Kaiser that he should keep a levelheaded diplomatist at his •lbow or restrict his activity where Germany's foreign interests are likely to suffer from his pergonal impulsive-

GERJUX OPIXIOX. KAISER CAUSTICALLY CRITICISED. Received Ist, 9,5« p.m. M, T . Nl ' W Vork '-*P»I lif. Towers resignation as American Ambassador to Germany ha, been ac•n>tcd. Dr. Hill's nomination has been •••i 'o the Senate.

- .. Iferlin. April 1. J»rlm newspapers eaustieallv criticise the Kaisers intervention and deprecate the idea that the Ambassador to Germany should owe his position more to «ches than ability. Some of the newspapers express the wwn that the Kaiser will refrain from personal intervention in delicate foreign affairs.