GERMANY AND BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 262, 29 October 1908, Page 2

GERMANY AND BRITAIN.

-THE KAJSEit a«Rs Oil. UO'.V UK >A\ Iv'l) IJIHTAIX FROM HUMILIATION. A ItJvMAIIkAHLH l\ I'IiHVIKW, Received 20, ].]s a.hi, . London, October 28, J •»' Daily Telegraph publishes a remarkable interview. wherein the Kius.„ speaking to a representative KiglMi! mail, fruakly expresses ilia disappointment with large sections of tfpkiiun j n Britain which mistrust his offers of friendship' He mentions that he lull lurnislied ic-j)eatiMl proofs of tlig ginevrity of liis friendship fof Britain. His refusaj to receive the llocr delegates closed the agitation in Ormany against England, while his unhesitating refusal to listen to France's mid Russia's appeal to join in summoning Britain to terminate the war and save the repubi lies and so liumiliiuc England to the dust, would, he said, be read by posterity from the Windsor archives in his telegram to Queen Victoria. The Kaiser added regarding his navyi "(iermany must be prepared for any eventualities in the Far East, only those Powers having great navies would be listened to whon the future of tilie I'acittc comes to be solved. Possibly Britain herself will be glad that Germany has a licet when both speak on the same side in the great debataa of the future."