TNE KAISER'S INTERVIEW.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 285, 26 November 1908, Page 4

TNE KAISER'S INTERVIEW.

PARTICULARS lIY MAIL. l'crth, Xovembcr 24. I The latest London mail brings the I • text of the interview between the I Kaiser and n "representative English: 1 man," which was published in the I Daily Telegraph on October 28, and which caused such a sensation. In the course of the conversation the Kaiser said: "You English are mad, mad as March hares. What has come over you that you are so completely given i.,?i to suspicions quite unworthy of a great nation! What more can Ido than I have done? "li declared with all the emphasis „t my command in my speech at the Guidhnll that my heart is set upon peace and that it is one of my dearest wishes to live on the best terms with I England. Have I ever been false to my word? Falsehood and prevarication are alien to my nature. • "My actions ought to speak for I themselves, but you listen not to th sm but to those who misinterpret and dis tort them. That is the personal insult which I feel nnd resent. To be for ' ever misjudged, to have my repeated . oilers of friendship weighed and scrutinI is'ed with jealous, mistrustful eyes, taxes my patience severely. I have said time alter time that 1 am the friend of England and your press, or at least " a considerable section of it, bids the

people of England to refuse my proffered hand and insinuates that the other holds a dagger. How can I convince the nation against its will? "I repeat that I am the friend of England, but you make things dillicult for me. "My task is not the easiest. The prevailing sentiment among large sections of the middle and lower classes of my own people is not friendly to England. I am, therefore, so to speak, in a minority in my own land, but it is n minority of the Ibcst elements, just ns it is in England with respect to Germany."