WHY EMPEROR WILLIAM HATES THE ENGLISH.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2534, 6 October 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

WHY EMPEROR WILLIAM HATES THE ENGLISH.

•Tons 1-U'l.l- 011 his travels has acquired a most unenviable reputation throughout 1 the world for arrogance and discourtesy, and, in fact, for objectional conduct of a nature which is tersely and correctly, described abroad as an insular. Disagreeable though he be, he is a perfect angel in comparison to the English schoolboy or college " man," who for the purpose of acquiring foreign language, has been placed under the care of some private tutor—generally a declassed English clergyman—in one of the provincial towns of Germany, Switzerland or France. It is impossible to conceive a more unruly, noisy, ami rough lot than these young men and boys, many of whom have been expelled for misconduct from the public schools of England ; and with their undisguised contempt foreverything foreign and their absolute lack of reverence, regard, or respect for anything abroad, they constitute a holy terror to tho inhabit mts of thu towns which they alllict with their presence. It is to those English college " men" and hoys that is mainly attributed the intense and notorious hatred of Emperor William for everything pertaining to Great Britain. They rendered bis life at Bonn perfect misery and torture to him. During the whole period of his school years in that pretty town on the bunks of the Rhine he was a butt of their practical jokes, an object of their ridicule and contempt, and repeatedly exposed to the grossest kind of insults at their hands. To give a solitary instance thereof it will be sufficient to state that 110 matter wliafc hour he set aside for his swiin in the river his young English tormentors would always make a ' poiutof taking their dip at the same time and of indulging in the roughest kind of horseplay. Thus no sooner would Prince William take his header oil' the divingboard than several of them would immediately plunge as if by accident on top of him and prevent hiin coining to the surface. This was all the more cruel as, owing to the fact of his left arm being withered and utterly useless, the poor boy was, and in fact still is, little better than a cripple. These and a thousand other petty insults he patiently bore in social silence ami without appearing to take any notice thereof, a fact which enraged his tormentors and always stimulated them to the perpetration of fresh outrages. That, however, he has not forgiven their behaviour, has been frequently and openly shown since he has become a power in the land, by his extreme and publicly shown dislike for everything English.—Berlin Letter to New York Times.