THE EX-KAISER’S LAMENT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 120, 14 February 1921, Page 5

THE EX-KAISER’S LAMENT

COMPLAINT AGAINST HIS PEOPLE DECLARES HE NEVER WISHED FOR WAR By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Rec. February 12, 5.5 p.m.) New York, February 11. The United Press Agency’s Berlin correspondent obtained from Heinrich Petermeyer, formerly tutor to Count Bentinck’s sons an account of an interview which Petermeyer was granted by the ex-Kaiser shortly before Wilhelm left Doorn. The interview was arranged through Count Bentinck. The ex-Kaiser said "We would never have lost the war if my people had remained true to themselves. We had already overcome hunger and need despite American joining hands with our eternal enemy Britain. Germany’s betrayal signified her death sentence. Notice how God is scourging the whole world now. My people betrayed themselves, their God, and me during the war. The Social Democrats took care of that. Chey are chiefly guilty. Every German soldier who returned home on short leave was systematically worked upon and spiritually spoiled. He returned to work*under false influences, :and was not a soldier any more. ' Ho then sought to influence his faithful comrades, and often succeeded. Potermeyer asked: “Does that mean- a death sentence,for. ever?" The ex-Kaiser replied: Nobody knows that. Only Almighty God can help us in the near future. I do not expect much. The world looks darker every day, anti it was never so’ far removed from peace. The whole world denied God; not only my people. For twenty-six difficult years I alone fought to keep the aC8 > and then the sword of peace was struck from my hand by my best friends. I never ’SSITk™ W1— «< Italy, Wilhelm said: Who could ha gueied that this friend would bave X come an enemy? I was sometimes wained, and it was not without I showed Emanuel my fleet at Kiel July, 1913?' —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.