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Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1923, Page 2

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CADLE ASSOCIATION. TROUBLE WITH ROLAND. BERLIN, Dec. 23 Relations between Germany and Roland have Icon further strained by the peremptory expulsion ol Polish agricultural workers by the Government of the Free State of Mockler.-btirg-Schwerin. Despite warnings from the German Foreign Office the Mecklenburg authorities have ordered 15,000 lahottrers, with their families, to leave the country within nine days. The employers have refused to pay tlie transportation fare ol the labourers though legally obliged to do so. NEW LIGHT ON EX-KAISER. LONDON. Dec. 2d. The Berlin correspondent of the “Daily Chronicle" says that ton - Robert- Zedlitz-Tnitzschtor, a veteran representative of the Prussian aristocracy, has been excommunicated owing to the publication of his diary which throws amazing new light on the ex-Kaiser. The Leagues ol Army and Navy Officers and the Guild of German Nobility have pronounced anathema against the Count for -baseless and disloyal behaviour.” Even the Count’s own family has disowntd him. The Count’s crime is that he ha* told the truth about the ex-Kaiser, with whom he was in daily communication for a dozen years its Court Chamberlain. The diary, written at the moment of observation, embodies the nodamning judgment ever pronounced on almost any figure in history. W hat lends special significance to the hook is that the Count published it at the dictates of his own conscience. TTis contemporary comments show that the Count foresaw the catastrophe to which Germany was being hastened. The Count originally settled his i a r v and inscribed it “not to he opened prior to 107(1," Imt says that he felt compelled to publish it as a warning to hi- own countrymen nevet to revert to the system of absolute monarchy. Amongst tlie ex-Kaiser’s declarations quoted day alter day is one:—‘ I never read the Constitution, and know noth ing about it. My subjects ought simply to do what 1 tell them. What is wanted is a little periodical bloodletting. Think what- Erodrich accom pii shed. I could do still more if I were as free as Friedrich to ling and behead.’ From 15)07 onwards, the ex-Kaiser began to complain bitterly that Edward I'll was intriguing against him. Ho fulminated daily against England, and declared in Bllfl"England is completely decadent. The upper classes are demoralised and the army navy are undermined by corruption and incapability. England's economic life is stagnant ; her people are unable to compete with other nations. 11l the shortest time, the world will witnes.- the collapse of the British Empire." The Count says that the ex-T.nt-press tried vainly to check these outbreaks.