MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright ) BYE-ELECTIQN. " (Received this day at 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, Dec.: 31. The bye-election for Bromley, vacant Through Forster’s elevation to the Peerage, resulted:—• Colonel C. James (Coalition Unionist), 11,148 F. Hodges, (Labour) 10,077

INFLUENZA AGAIN. (Received This Day at 10.35. a.m.) PARIS, Dec. 31. Influenza has reappeared and a numw of deaths are reported. THE KAISER’S LETTERS. OF HISTORIC VALUE. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 31. The Australian Press Association has secured the exclusive rights for publication in Australasia of thje historic letters of the to the Czftr between 18SM aipi 1913“Morning Post*’ which owns the eiWrrsive rights for Britain is publishing ipafty tfafiismiles of letters- which

♦•over tho period of the Boer and RussoJapanese wars, Austria-Hungary’s annexation of Bosnia and Herzgovina and the Emperor’s trips to Jerusalem and the Mediterranean. The letters are of great political and diplomatic interest, as they fqrpi the key to the Kaiser's tortuous, clumsy foreign policy in his effort to make Germany the master of the world.i They reveal a great German conspiracy, primarily designed against Britain but involving the humiliation of RusKa and France ,and constituting the) cret history of the causes leading to the world war. The correspondence throws many sidelights of the Kaiser’s personal character revealing his extraordinary vanity, bad temper, love of rhetoric, the religious vein of his character and his intense belitef in his diplomatic finesse, which really consisted of bullying and flattery. The letters confirm what the world has suspected that the Kaiser hated and {pared jiis English uncle, Edward VIl.