The sun., 1908-10-30
KAISER lEGERED GERMANY
HIS INTERyIEW RAS AROUSED
A STORM or PROTEST.

the Greotest IpdiscFetioa Of Tais Relgn.
Ono Paper esyp-Did He Alse Provide
Japan with Pians Which LED to Vie.
|, tory, Russians ASK ContemptuSuSiy.
|; Special caAs ,Dfspa.tA.s 10 Tus SUM-
BBALrN, Oct. .A-If the interview with
the Kaiser, published by the London
Telegraph, is received with captlous
GOODNESS In Great Britain; 1t IL not too
much TO say that 1t has raised Q storm
OF anger bore. Germans have waited
vainly for a. official repudiation Of the
Conversation, which at first It. was not
doubted would be Forthcoming, and their
disappointment at the non-appearanoe Of
such q Reputation 10 extreme.
The newspapers express popular senti-
ment with great frankness, the severest
criticisms appearing In the Conservative
and reaotionary journals. Ono declares
that the interview is the greatest indis-
cretion Of the Kaiser's reign. >. Another
says: ..P.s
1T has united our foes, lowered our
prestige and shattered belief abroad in
the sincerity, sanctity and earnestness Of
our foreign policy
1u0 4 0HuCVO NuUuoCVuus WAhCh -
commonly reported TO be the Kaiser's
favotte newspaper, laments IL bitterly
and with pungent reference TO the En-
peror's theatrical policy. It declares that
this latest indiscretion Is q severe blow
to German interests.
There 10 hardly a point In the whole
range Of the Kaiser's statement that es-
oapes severe handling. His admission
that he prepared war scheme against
the Boefs 10 denounced as q spectacle
which centuries cannot Grass. His refer
enoe to the future Of the Pacific is con-
demned as gratuitous menace to Japan.
The oensures are 90 general tina. 1t 10
needless to particularize the damnatory
papers. There are few exceptions. the
most notew orthy being the newspapers
known as "the Won Buelow press. whose
comments on political matters arc always
more or less inspired by the Government.
The % put the best faos, they can on the
situation, saying. tho Kaissr merely stated
what he and the leading German states
men have repeatedly declared in public
speeches, but their isolated efforts to COM
pose tho tempest are lost in the general
hurricane, Of reprobation.
ST. PErERsBuRa, Dot. 2e.-Except per-
haps In court circles, there is little pro-
German feeling In Russia. The Kaiser's
published interview threatens to ALLEVIATE
this and it intensifies the antagonism
where It already exists. In some guar
ters the interview is compared with the
petulant blow Of man who cannot keep
his temper In @ losing game.
1t is asked oontemptuously Did the
Kaiser, also provide the Japanese with
strategic plans which led to, viotoryi
His Majesty's version Of Russia's share
IN the proposed Intervention in South
Africa Is denounced as an attempt to
create rift In the recent Anglo Russian
friendship. st .- -.e
This suspicion Of q desire to weaken
the newly formed understanding makes
It unfortunate for the Russo German
relations. being awakened at q moment
when Russian sympathfes for the southern
Slavs are wounded by GeRnany'e support
Of AustriaS annexation Of Bosnia and
Herzegovina. The Novos Yremyd recon-
mends Europe to take the Kaiser's words
as q test not only Of German respect for
international obligations In the past
but Of every word Germany may say or
write In the future.