"There are mischief makers," replied the Emperor, "in both
countries. I will not attempt to weigh their relative capacity for
misrepresentation, but the facts are as I 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 both
at the Guildhall and in my latest speech at Strassburg."

Kaiser and the Boer War.

Reverting to his efforts to show his friendship for England, the Kaiser
said they had not been confined to words. It was commonly believed that
Germany was hostile to England throughout the Boer war. Undoubtedly the
newspapers were hostile and public opinion was hostile. "But what," he
asked, "of official Germany? What brought to a sudden stop, indeed, to
an absolute collapse, the European tour of the Boer delegates, who were
striving to obtain European intervention?"

"They were fêted 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 agitation immediately died away and the delegates
returned empty handed. Was that the action of a secret enemy?

"Again, when the struggle was at its height, the German Government
was invited by France and Russia to join them in calling upon
England to end the war. The moment had come, they said, not only to
save the Boer republics, but also to humiliate England to the dust.
What was my reply? I said so far from Germany joining in any
concerted European action to bring pressure against England and
bring about her downfall Germany would always keep aloof from