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KAISER Interview
IS REPUD|ATED
Or. HALE chARAcTERIZEs THE
WORLD PUBLICATION A
FABRICATION.
NEW YORK PAPER
PRINTS 1T AS GENUINE

German Emperor In Alleged Interview
Expresses impatence with King
Edward and Predicts American-Jap
War Within Ten Months.
New York, Nov. 23.-William Bay
ard Hale Saturday issued the follow.
| ing statement: II repudiate absolute
ly the story which the New York
World Saturday published purporting
to tell what passed at my audience
with the German emperor. 1t is fab
rication from beginning to end, and
so declared to the World reporter
who showed it to me before pub
Iication."
Given Out az Genuine.
New York, Nov. 23.-What purports
to be an absolutely accurate and
authentic synopsis" of the interview
obtained from Emperor William OF
Germany by DIR. William Bayard Hale
and subsequently withdrawn just as
it was about to appear in the Century
magazine, is printed by the World.
The World declares that the article
as originally written was submitted to
Dr. Hale and that 1t appeared Satur-
day las changed by DR.. Hale"
The interview is said to have taken
place on the imperial yacht Hohenzol-
lern of Bergen. Norway, while DR..
Hale was the emperor's guest. The
World summarizes the main points OF
the emperor's interview as follows:
THAT King Edward of Great Brit
ain had been humiliating him for more
than two years and that he was ex-
asperated; that Germany was the par
amount power in all Europe and that
England was trying to neutralize that
power.
France in Hollow Of His Hand.
THAT he held France in the hollow
of his hand and that Russia was of no
account since the disastrous war she
had waged with Japan.
THAT If the pan-European war
which had been so much talked about
was inevitable the sooner it came the
better it would be for him, because he
was ready and was tired of the sus
pense.
THAT Great Britain had been de-
cadent nation ever since her victory
over the Transvaal and the Orange
Free State, because hers was an un-
righteous, ungodly cause and divine
judgment was bound eventually to
overtake the powerful nation that
waged such a war.
THAT the Anglo-Japanese alliance
was an Ubiquitous alliance against all
the white races England proving alb
solutely her faithlessness as Chris
tian nation; that Japan was honey
combing India with sedition and flood
ing 1t with spies, while protesting
openly to be England's friend and ally
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS War Near"
THAT the only way to counterfeit
this alliance was for Germany and
America to act together at an early
date or America would have to fight
the Japanese in ten months.
That in the event of a great war
England would lose many Of her large
colonies, especially those in the Pa
cific, and that all he would take for
Germany would be Egypt, though he
would liberate the holy land from the
yoke Of the infidel, presumably mean
ing the sultan.
That the perfecting of the Zeppelin
dirigible balloon would give Germany
a powerful advantage In war, and she
was ready to make use of 1t to the
fullest extent"
No Secrecy About Statements.
The World declares that Emperor
William knew when he made these
statements that DR.. Hale was an
American newspaper man and maya
zine writer. but chat. nevertheless. the
statements were made without reser-
walton, and that no secrecy was i'm
posed. The interview had been for
mally arranged through the German
foreign office. 1t is said, aud that at
the conclusion Of the interview Dr.
Hale returned to Berlin and told high
officials of the foreign office of his
success
They forbade him to publish IT,"
the World story continues. Then they
explained to him at some length that
even a hint at possibilities so serious,
coming from one who had been the
emperor's guest. might throw the
whole world into the most disastrous
war of all time. The attitude of these
officials is said to have been that the
emperor was irresponsible whea he
gave way to such fits OF temper
1t is said that DR.. Hale obeyed the
Instructions Of the foreign Office in
the preparation of his interview but
later when the manuscript was sub.
mitted to the high German officials
they ere said to have so butchered 1t
that little which was worth while was
left" 1t was in this final form, &C.
cording to the World, that the article
was accepted by the Century 1t was
!, practically ready for publication when
the request came from Berlin that
: even the interview in it's revised form
be suppressed. Then the electrotypes
and all copies Of the interview were
. destroyed before the public announce
ment that the interview had beer
!. withdrawn was made.
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