The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-02

the British position in Egypt and In- dia was so strong and unassailable- no reasonable objection could be of- fered to the development of German influence in the Balkans, the Levant, and the Near East generally.
 After this fairly exhaustive survey. ventured to recall to His Majesty Bismarck's dictum that 'the Balkans were not worth the bones of a Pom eranian guard" and from the Kaiser's expression I recognized my error inn mediately, and turned the screw of our talk round to Russia.
 q have no fear of Russia said His Majesty. "It is a vast Empire, which will one day split up. Mean while, as we are next door neighbors, it is a splendid market for my manu- facturers, and neither Russia, Swe- den, Norway, nor Denmark could ex- ist without them. We are bound to expand" His Majesty concluded scme- what dramatically-"We must have our place in the sun, but never have any doubt that it will be easy to come | to an agreement with Britain on all territorial questions"
 His Majesty moved towards the rail, for we were on the deck of the Ho- henzollern, and thought the moment for my dismissal had arrived. But he stood in silence whilst waited, then gave some instructions to one of his suite who was near ard finally asked me if I was interested in yacht rac- ing. assured His Majesty that was I-keenly. "Ah, well!". he replied. "I must make a better show at Cowes, and perhaps one day carry off that American Cup you talk so much about"
 | Chance, more than wisdom, deter mined that I should see something of the Kaiser's harlequin made through Turkey on his way to Jerusalem. In passing it may be mentioned that in the course of his journey the supply of antiseptic lint ran out, and wheth- CT from climatic or other changes I cannot say, His Majesty suffered a particularly vjrulent discharge from the neighborhood of the ear. On this occasion I had no speech with him, and it was not until the year 1904, when I was the guest for & couple of days of Baron von Wind helm, his Ober Hofmarshall, at Will telmshole, in Lassel, that we had our next talk.
 The Baron and were walking in the grounds of the castle when we came upon two dashshunds. His Ma jesty cannot be far off" said the Bar on, and almost immediately we met the Kaiser. The Baron formally pre- sented me, and I recalled our con- varsation on the Hoherzollerr. His Majesty remembered it, and straight way attacked the question, which was evidently uppermost in his mind of Morocco and our relationship with France.
 'I must see to it," he exclaimed ''that our sphere is developed proper ly on the North West African coast. Neither France nor Spain is doing anything with it, and our East and Southwest African colonies are scarcely suitable for our purposes. Why should the Mediterranean be regarded as British lake?"
 r. I took upon myself to point out that it was not so regarded, at least by us, that all nations had a free ceeding year showed a wonderful iS1OWI LII Ol NSI lldAA SAIIRp1HS pdSSlIlS through it. From the Levant ports through the Dardanelles to the Black Sea, I further indicated, there was an annual increase of German com. merce, and I congratulated His Mai esty upon the fact that his people seemed to be king the most of op-
 portunities in those regions, which we had recently been prone to neglect
 !, ty calculated. 'sThey must be inter. : nationalized; bu they cannot help be- ing Germanized in the course of oul Eastern policy, and this will be all tc the good of my ally in Vienna and the Balkan states generally"
 My Ally, Austria!
 The point could not fail to strike me very shrewdly, as this was the 7 first time the Kaiser had made men 7 ton of Austria Hungary, or its agec } Monarch, whom he appeared to thinl ) he had vertically ''in his pocket" w, = parted, and having made my adieu1 Q to the Ober-Hofmarschall, I returned T to Berlin during the afternoon. = At the Hotel der Kaiserhof, on Will 5 helmplatz, where I was staying, hat
  [ discuss with others those excursion t of the Kaiser. By some of my friends n either British or American, they wer e not taken seriously; by others, and = endorsed their opinions, they were re
 garded as a sign of 8 soning peril e and although during each succeed n ing year I did what was in me to en l. sure peace, I was less surprised thai Ioa n with which the Naval Bill was intro l duced in 1908.
 e "our reply" said a very wen-know1 = diplomatfst to me recently 'shoul, @ have been to threaten to blow tn t ships out of the water. It might hay s prevented this war, but our policy wa 0 altogether pusillanimous at the time : Do vo,, think that the Germans woul, n have put up with such a blusterinI : menace from us as was implied in tha e bill and it's consequences?"