HOW MONARCHS ARE INTERVIEWED

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 324, 16 January 1909, Page 4

HOW MONARCHS ARE INTERVIEWED

Although tl„. rocentlv published Kaiser interview tt-ijl jiroliiil.ly taki- rank in Jiistor.v as tin' most momentous of its kind, it is l.y mi means tin.- ui.lv one. Indeed, (juiti. a nuiiilit-r of instances arc rcco'dod of kings having spoken for |.nblica(ion through the nit'iliuiii of the Press. 1 Thus the (li'rnian Emperor lilmsi'lf lias been interviewed in (In. past l.v Mr. hdward Dicey and Air. W. T. Stead, iinj«ngs( other j.ublicisls <jf lcjjiUi'. The last-named journalist also suei'reiied in obtaining, at dill'ci'ent (inn's, aullicuticated interviews with tlu> Tsar of Russia and thi' Sultan of Turkev. Miiiiy years ago. too,' the late .Mr. id liiirtli-tl. secured a ccrlilicl uKcrvicw with Al,dul.llamiil. which he published in full hi his paper. (In another occasion, a free la-iiec journalist, u'liu happened to 1„. at Cairo, boldly sought, and obtained, an inlrrvicw with (lie Khedive. He hurried with it to England, and sold it to .Mr. Astor. of the l'«|| .Mall (ia/.cUc. for a nil m wbieli ri'p.i'senteil (.lnee years'' earnings under ordinary circumstances. I ll'erlia.ps, however, the most Ironicn- I donsly important i imunicalion ever made Ijy a iiionarcli to a journalist was that which the Tsar Alexander of Hits, sia jonlideil to J|. ,1,. lilowilz. of the rimes, in the aiitunin of IST."., (iennany Had made up her mind to attack I'rance. lie lilowitz got to know „f it, and buried to SI. I'clcrsl.u'rg with the news. The Tsar was furious, and handed he famous correspondent a signed intimation of hi- intention („ declare war ugainst (''ermany mi tljc ilav that the .reposed invasion of Kranr-e was begun. I'lns document was to l«. pul.lislied l.v the Times, if certain eventualities happened. They never did happen, how■ver. ami as a result the Invest jourlalistic coup of (In- age was hi'iideii Iron, the eye of (lie general pul.lic, until I' le Dlowitz told the storv in his memoirs nany years afterwards. |