Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-21
KA|S[R'S TALK L[AkS
Synopsis of Alleged War Scare
Interview Once Suppressed,
Is Published
PREDICTED JAP-AMERIcAN WAR
Declared Nations Would Clash Within
Ten Years - William Bitter Against
England = Coalition Against Great
Britain is Suggested = Correctness
of Story Denied.

pVItalH Is suggested SOTTCStHCSS
of Story Denied.
Chicago, Nov. 81. = Emperor WILL
helms famous suppressed interview is
out.
At least Chicago newspaper prints
in London dispatch what purports to
be a synopsis of the talk which the
kaiser had with DR.. William Bayard
Hale, the distinguished clergyman.
traveller and writer, on board the inn
perial yacht Hohenzollern at Bergen,
Norway, on July 49,.
Mr.. Hale was seeking an article for
the Century Magazine, which article, in
view Of the furore created thruout Ger
many by an Interview subsequently
given by the emperor to diplomatist
been suppressed at the request of the
German government The dispatch
printed says:
"The emperor talked to DR.. Hale
for several hours. He was bitter
against England. Full Of the yellow
peril" he declared England traitor
to the white mans cause. He pre-
dicted that she ultimately would lose
some of her colonies thru her treaty
with Japan.
Why Fleet Was Invited.
"The invitation to the American
fleet of battleships to visit New Zea-
land and Australia was intended to
serve notice on England that those col
onies were with the white man and not
with the renegade mother country. The
British colonies would show by the
ardor of their reception that they I'M
derstood the situation.
1.-THE emperor declared that japan
is even now fomenting insurrection IN
India. This Instruction might break
out within six months. Germany and
the United States will, however, find a
solution of the eastern question.
"There is complete understanding
between Emperor William Pres1-
dent Roosevelt on this subject. They
intend to divide the east against Itself
by becoming the recognized friends OF
China. Negotiations have been pro-
crossing favorably for months A high
Chinese official the emperor said, would
soon visit America and Germany
Terms will then be made known, guar
anteeing the protection and integrity OF
China and the open door.
"America Must Fight Japan"
"E,very statesman now realizes. the
emperor declared, that Russia, IN hel
struggle with Japan, was really ngnt-
ing the white mans battle-the Whlte
mans standard had been placed by
Providence upon his inyincible battal-
ions.
"If Japan be suffered now to get
control of China, Europe will surfer
The emperor is keeping friends with
the .Mohammedan world. He is even
supplying them with rifles, because they
are devils in fight, and stand there be-
tween the east and the west, Where
thew can break the first force OF an
attack. ~
emperor William said heFbelieved
that America would be forced to fight
Japan within ten years. He seemed
eager to talk, and poured steady
stream Of criticism upon England TOT
two hours.
"Dr. Hale was received by the en-
peror as a distinguished traveller, schol-
ar and writer. He was informed that
1t was the kaiser's inviolable rule never
to communicate with newspaper men.
Authority Not Surprised.
The correspondent, the dispatch says
submitted the above to Sir Charles
Dixie, perhaps the highest authority
in England on International politics.
He examined it with the greatest In
terest. but acted like a man already
familiar with the contents. After read
ing it he said:
"Thanks; but I must decline to dis
cuss the kaiser his words or his works.
fOn the general subject matter OF the
interview / can only say that Eng
lands alliance with Japan was pol
lev arranged after considerable thought
and consideration.
"The observation that the Anglo
japanese treaty may lose England her
colonies is a pure matter of prophecy,
of which time will demonstrate either
the truth or the falsity.
GAS to the yellow peril the idea
is, to my thinking, extremely crude"