THE KAISER'S INTERVIEW.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3054, 26 November 1908, Page 5

THE KAISER'S INTERVIEW.

THE FULL TEXT. Received November 25, 9.30 a.m. PERTH, November 25. The mail brings the full text of the interview with the Kaiser, published in the London "Daily Telegraph" cn October 28th, and which recently caused such a sensation. In the course oi conversation, the Kaiser said: "You English are mad —mad as March hares! What has come over you that you are so completely given oyer to a suspicion quite unworthy of a great nation! What more can I do than I have done? I declared, with all the emphasis at my command, in my speech at the Guildhall, that my heart is set upon peace, and that it is one of my dearest wishes live on the best terms with England. Have I ever been false to my word? Falsehood and prevarication are falien to my nature. My actions ought to speak for themselves, but ycu listen now to them, but to those who misinterpret and distort them. That is a personal insult which I feel and resent—to be for ever misjudged, to have my repeated offers of friendship weighed and scrutinized with jealous, mistrustful eyes, taxes my patierce severely. I have said time after time that I am a friend of England, and your Press —or at least a considerable section of it bids the people ot England to refuse my proffered hand, and insinuated that the other holds a dagger. How can I convince the nation against its will. I repeat that I am a friend to England but you make things difficult 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 friendy to England. I am. therefore, so to speak, in a minority in my own land, but it is a minority o* the best elements, just as in England, it is j with respect to Germany. "