One of the most startling incidents of the Kaiser's reign was the interview with him printed in the London "Dairy Telegraph" of Oct, 28, 1908. In it he said that "Engtishmen, in giving rein to suspicious unworthy of a great nation," were "mad as March hares," and that "the prevailing sentiment among large sections of the middle and lower classes of my own people is not friendly to Frgland. 7 am, therefore, so to speak, in a minority in' my own land, but it is @ minority of the best clements, just_as it. is in England with respect to Germany German opinion was, he admitted, "bitterly hostile" to England during the Boer War, and that the German people, if he had. permitted Boer delegates in Berlin, "woud have crowned them with flowers."
He asserted that he had formulated a plan of campa lyn in South Africa which Lord Roberts adopted in substance.
The Kaiser was quoted in this interview as declaring Germany needed a. large fleet chiefly on account of the Far Eastern situation.
The interview was republished in official German organs, and caused as great a stir in Germany as in England. There were many debates on it in the Reichstag and one or two. "investigations."
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