El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-20

y feet five and a half or six inches,
I while his multitudlnOus uniforms are
manifestly cut to dissemble ctrtain
Z bodily short comings. His left arm
and hand are the size OF a baby's. but
Z in his right arm and hand he has OBJ
3 Vlously much more power than the
"A Friend OF Britain
His majesty put me through rapid
I Llre OF questions In particularly
stern and unbending manner. and by
my replies endeavOred TO steer the
barQue OF our conversation round TO
points upon which I sought iuforma-
ton. That he was a true friend OF
Britain was asserted over and over
again. yet It became Increasingly OBJ
vtous to me that his friendship de-
pended wholly and solely upon our
desire or ability 10 thwart the at
tainment Of his ambitions, That he
regarded himself as he chosen race
to compass the dominion Of the world
was too manifest TO be mistaken.
Already he was obsessed by the
yellow peril" and thought Britain
should join him in combating it.
France had become, or was rapidly
becoming, q negligible quantity in
european affairs, and her political
ana religious interests in Palestine
and Syria need not be taken into &C
count. he said.
Il have no fear Of Russia" said his
majesty. 1T is a vast empire. which
VIII one day split up Meanwhile. s
We are next door neighbors, Il is a
splendid market for my manufactur-
erss ana neither Russia, Sweden, Nor
way, nor Denmark could exist with
out them. We are bound to expand"
HIS majesty concluded somewhat dra-
mat1cally. we must have our place
in the sun but I never have any
doubt that il viii be easy to come 10
an agreement with Britain on all ter
ritorial questions"
We Must Develop.
It was not until the year 1904. when 4
1 was the guest for a couple Of days
OF baron Won Windheim. his ODER I
at WThelmshoIe. in I
Lassel. that we had our next talk.
The baron and were walking in 1
the grounds OF the castle when we
came upon two dashshunds His
majesty cannot be far off" said the
baron, and almost Immediately we
met the kaiser. The baron formally
presented me, and recalled our con-
versation on the Hohenzollern. He
remem oered it, and straightway at
tackled the question. which was
evidently uppermost in his mind. OF
Morocco and our relationship with
Il must see TO It." he exclaimed.
that our sphere IS developed prop
srly on the northwest African coast.
Neither France nor Spain is doing
any Lnlng Win II. and our east and
west African colonies are scarcely
suitable for our purposes. Why should
ne Mediterranean be regarded as a
British lake7"
From the Levant ports, through
The Dardanelles to the Black sea. I
indicated, there was an annual in
crease Of German commerce, and 1
congratulated his majesty upon It
"Ah!" the Dardanelles," his majesty
calculated They must be interna-
lonahzed; but they cannot help be-
ng Germanized in the course Of our
EASTERN policy, and this will be all !
% the good Of my ally IN Vienna and
ne Balkan states generally"
Ny Ally, AustrIar
The point could not fail to strike
ne very shrewdly. as this was the q
1rst time the kaiser had made men {
ion Of Austria-Hung ary, or its aged {
monarch, whom he appeared to think
ie had Feritably "in his pocket" We q
iarteo, and returned to Berlin dur /
ng the afternoon. S
At the Hotel der KaiserhJf. on q
where was staying, 1 ] !
lad plenty OF occasions TO consider
md discuss with others those sxcur- S
ions OF the kaiser. By some OF my I
riends, either British or American,