Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-21
lNpiscREET uTTERANcEs OF
GERMAN KAISER TO AMERICAN
MAGAZINE " CORRESPONDENT
PUBLISHED BY HEARST PAPERS
EMPEROR BITTER
AGAINST BRITAIN
DECLARED ENGLAND WAS TRAi-
TOR TO "WHITE MANS CAUSE"
FOR FORMING TREATY WITH
JAPAN; PRAISES AMERICA.

Chicago, Nov 20.-The Chicago
Examiner published today the fol
lowing cable dispatch from Lon
don which purpopts to give the
main points of the interview given
by Emperor William for the Cen
tury magazine. which was suppress
sed owing to tho storm raised BY
the kaiser's interview in the Lon
don Telegraph.
London, Nov. 2o.-Here is exactly
what Emperor William said ON world
politics to Dr.. William Bayard Hale,
the distinguished clergyman, traveller
and writer, on beard the imperial
yacht Hohenzollern ut Bergen, Nor
way, on July 10.
DR.. Hale was seeking an article for
the Century magazine, which article,
lin view Of the carthauake created
throughout Germany by an interview
subsequently given by the Emperor
William to q diplonatist for the Lon
don Daily Telegraph, has been sun
pressed at the request of the German
government.
\ Tho emperor talked to Or. Hale for
/ several hours. He was bitter against
Englard aud vas full or the .Hcllo1'
iperil,n FIn Occurred Engiond i'aitor
to tho white mans caBsasg He predict.
led that she would ultimately lose
some Of her colonies through her
treaty with japan.
Spoke OF Fact With Roosevelt.
/, The invitation to the American feet
iof battlcshins to visit New Zealand
and Australia was intended to serve
notice on Engj&&I that those colonies
were with the white man and moi
with the renegade mother country The
British colonies would show by the
ardor Of their reception that they un.
derstood the situation.
/ The emperor declared that japan s
even now fomenting insurrection in
\ India This insurrecticn might brealS
out within six months Germany and
1 the United States will however, find
I solution of the eastern question.
There is a complete understanding
between Emperor William and Presi
| dent Roosevelt on this point They i'll
tend to divide the east against itselt
by becoming the recognized friends oI
China.
| Negotiations have been progressing
/ favorably for months. A very high
/ Chinese official the emperor said would
soon visit America and Germans. Terms
will then be made known guarantee
ing the protection and integrity o
China and the open door.
Wishes He Could Have Fought Japan
Every statesman now realizes, tn.
| emperor declared, that Russia in he
! great struggle with Japan was reallt
! fighting the white mans cause-fight
ing 1t miserably The emperor ex
pressed sympathy with Russia, re
marking how different The resul
would have been if the burden of car
rying the white mans standard ha
been placed by Providence upon hi
invincible battalion.
If Japan be suffered now to get con
troll Of China Europe will suffer at
tack. The emperor Is Keeping friends
with the Mohammedan world
He is even supplying them will
rifles, because they are devils ir
fight and stand there between th.
east and the west where they cal
break the first force of attack.
The emperor William said he beliey
ed tnat America Would De forced u
fight with Japan within ten years
He seemed eager to talk and poured
steady stream OF criticism upon Ens
land for two hours.
DR.. Hale was received by the en-
peror as a distinguished traveller
scholar and writer He was informe
that it was the Kaiser, inviolable rul
never to communicate with newspa
per men.