KAISER'S AMAZING SPEECH

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 121, 31 August 1910, Page 5

KAISER'S AMAZING SPEECH

SOCIALISTS' DEMANDS. ] jßy Cable. Press Association.—Copyright j Berlin, August 29. The Vorwaerts demands that the ReicliS'tajg should be summoned, in view J of the lvaiser's recent speech. It declares ' it is the imperative duty of the people's representatives to pick up the gauntlet thro\vn down by the monarch ,and indicate the constitutional limits of the Crown. SOCIALIST CONFERENCE. ■ Copenhagen, August 29. The International Socialist Congress hasi opened. Herren Bebel and Singer, the German leaders, will he ujiable to foe present. KAISER REVIEWS A SQUADRON, j AND WAVES THE OLIVE BRANCH. ! Received August 30, 8.30 p.m. Berlin, August 30. j The Nord Deutsche Zeitung protests at the misinterpretations of the Kaiser's , Konigsberg speech, and denies that it j contained an absolutist declaration. The Kaiser reviewed-and manoeuvred' a squadron of 21 (battleships in Dantzig ! Bay.

His Imperial Majesty, speaking later at Ma-rieniburg, declared that the cooperation of commerce, shipbuilding and agriculture, in constituting- the strength and greatness, of the Fatherland, had been made possible only by the maintenance of peace won under the great Emperor in 1879 at Marienburg, and the Teutonic knights had shown that Teutonism 'and Christianity were inseparably connected. This was an illustration of his words' at Konigsberg. The Kaiser appealed to all creeds to unite in brotherly love, and all classes to co-operate with the common laborer, whatever their calling might be, in order to meet the needs of the State. He added that the supporters of one party should grasp the hands of their opponents in order to do great things for the Fatherland. '