The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-17
WHAT THE KAISER SAID TO
EXCITE THE CHANDELIERS
The Famous Interview in Which He Protested
His Friendship for England and Told
How He Had Served Her.

, of Europe view with disapproval the
recent sending OF the German Consul
at Algiers to Fee and forestalling
France and Spain by suggesting the
recognition of Sultan Mulai Hafid. The
Kaiser made All impatient gesture and
exclaimed: Eyes, that is an excellent
example of the way German actions
are misinterpreted, ;" and with vivid
directD9ss he defended the aforesaid
incidents, as the German government
has already done.
The interviewer reminded the Kaiser
that an important and influential sec
ton Of the German newspapers inter
preted these acts very differently and
effusively approved of them because
they indicated that Germany was bent
upon shaping events in Morocco.
"There are mischief Makers re-
piled the Emperor, sin both countries.
L will not attempt to weigh their rela-
| tive capacity for misrepresentation, but
the facts are as / have stated There
has been nothing in Germany's recent
action in regard to Morocco contrary
to the explicit declaration of my love
of peace made in my last speech at the
GulIdhau and IN my last speech at
Strasburg.'
Reverting to his efforts to show his
friendship for England, the Kaiser said
they had not been confined to words
1t was commonly believed that Ger
many was hostile to England through
the Boer war. Undoubtedly the news
papers were hostile and public opinion
was hostile. But WHAT he asked
g of official Germany7 What brought to
sudden stop, indeed to an absolute
collapse, the European tour of the Boer
delegates, who were striving to obtain
European intervention?
''They were feted in Holland. France
gave them a rapturOus welcome They
wished to come to Berlin, where the
German people would have crowned
them with flowers, but when they asked
me to receive them I refused. The agi-
tation Immediately died away and the
delegates returned empty handed. Was
that the action of secret enemy?
''Again, when the struggle was at it's
height, the German Government was
invited by Fance and Russia to ioin
them in calling upon England to end
the war. The moment had come, they
said, not only to save the Boer repub-
lies, but also to humiliate England to
the dust. What was my reply9 1 said
so far from Germany joining in any
concerted European action to bring
pressure against England and bring
about her downfall Germany would al
ways keep aloof from politics that
could bring her into complications with
a sea power like England.
'Posterity will one day read the ex-
act terms of a telegram, now in the
archives of Windsor Castle, in which
1 informed the sovereign of England
of the answer | returned to the powers
which then sought to compass her fall.
Englishmen who now insult me by
doubling my word should know what
my actions were in the hour of their
adversely.
''Nor was that all During your
black week in December, 1899, when
disasters followed one another in rapid
succession. 1 received a letter from
Queen Victoria, my revered grand
mother, written in sorrow and affIic-
ton and bearing manifest traces of the
anxieties which We're preying upon her
mind and health. / at once returned
a sympathetic reply; did more / babe
one of my officers to procure as exact
an account as he could obtain of the
number of combatants on both sides
and the actual positions of the opposing
forces.