GERMAN PROFESSOR ON THE KAISER'S FLIGHT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 60, 5 December 1918, Page 5

GERMAN PROFESSOR ON THE KAISER'S FLIGHT

"UNKINGLY, "UNSOLDIEELY, UNMANLY." (Bee. December 4, 7.20 p.m.) London, Decenibtvr 3. German advice" slate that the flight of the Kaiser is coi demned in many quarters, particularly among the soldiers. Dr. Steinager, a Professor of Law, writes in "Der Tag": "No criticism is too strong, because the Emperor's action was nrikingly, unsqldierly, nnd unmanly, and served to give a death-blow to monarchical ideas in Germany. A monarch cannot run away like a schoolboy. If he thought himself incapable of retaining Ms position, the bnttMront offered him the opportunity of at least making a kingly and dignified exit."—Renter. KAISER SHIRKS~ISPONSIBILITV FOR WAR BLAMES HIS MINISTERS. (Bee. December 4, 7.55 p.m.) Amsterdam, December 2. The Kaiser, interviewed, declined to take the responsibility for the war, .ami declared that von Bethrnann-Hollweg (exChancellor) and von Jagow (ex-Foreign Minister) were responsible for the policy. They sent him- unwillingly to Norway to prevont his intervention at the pre-war crisis. Von Bethmann-Hollweg denies this.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE CROWN PRINCE HAS "RENOUNCED NOTHING AND SIGNED NOTHING." New York, December 3. The Crown Prince, in an interview, declared that he had renounced nothing and signed nothing.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Eec. December 4, 5.5 p.m.) New York, December 3. Interviewed in Holland by an Am'ertcan correspondent, the ex-Crown 'Prince denied that he had relinquished any of hie rights of succession. He was convinced that Germany had lost the war in October, 1914, but would not have lost it if the Chiefs of tlio General Staff had not lost their heads. He tried to make peace then, even at the sacrifice of Al-sace-Lorraine, but was told to mind his own business and confine himself to commanding his armies.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable I Assn. GERMANY CLOSED TO THE DYNASTIES. Berne, December 2. Herr Dernburg (late German State Secretary), addressing a combined political demonstration at Magdeburg, declared that the members of the dynasties must not return.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. to fresh pieldsund pastures new: (Rec. December 4, 11.20 p.m.) Vancouver, December 3. The Gorman Government has consented to permit n number of the Ifohenzolleni princes to leave Germany, provided they leave their fortunes behind. Prince August Wilhelm Hohenzolleru and his wife are going to tile Argentine shortly. —Renter.