AT THE EX-KAISER’S COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1924, Page 4

AT THE EX-KAISER’S COURT.

I (MINERAL IN BALLET S KURTS. I • LONDON, -May ;50. Count Robert Zedlitz-Ti utzschler's “Twelve Years at the Inii-orial Court” is hy far the most interesting book on the ex-Kaiser that has yet appeared.. As it is hy a I’m.s.sian uuhle who from TDO-'i to 1010 was Controller of the Household, its authenticity is heyond dispute. It lias hcen iiereely attacked hy the militarists in (!er--1 many because of the 1 itiful jic turo whith ir gives of the ex-Jvmneror. William 1! is emit:listed with Edward Vi I thus:

On the one side the man of the world, ten times tried in the furnace who lutd oveiy move in the game at his linger ti ; s and hr I trodden every hy;;;!!!. Oil the other, the idialislio l-.ijr , i i| d v, ho l.ed g:n.\n nji with none lull lletiet - r-buut him in ignorame of the world. The approach of cata-tr it he. Count Zediitz iiuMs, was disunited “many years before” hy “a lew <Te tr sighted inor. idiitt'is." lint no man could speak Hie tritt'i to 11!t• 1. ’ j-.■ r< c ; he would listen only to the servile. His mother, the Hut; less Frederick I : I said of him . Flay do not i.e’ieve for a in:meat that my in over does aintliog tor any other reason hut vanity. Ilis Court was a strange one and lie lord a Idling for rough | ra tieal jokes. Thus on a hunting expedition t His Majesty lwdd down Cudouol 8.. who was in command ot a cavalry regiment, for a long time in the snowami. to the great delight id all the spot tutors, ruhlied snow over him, just in the wa-v a schorl htilly would tie.lt a wcake.r hoy. If tluer,e was no reel friemlsliiii between Edward VIE. the Czar, and the King of Italy « :i the one hand and William on tin- other, it is very largely due to 11 * fact that the Emperor hi, ; often, both hy. word of mouth, and in writing, expres-ed himself when lie thought it was :-a’u. finite without reslra.nt. tint tfi saw vulgaiK a 1 out their Majesties, and this naluiallv lias came i i their ears.

One of tlie mist e.\tiandinary epiisiih’s in the hoik is the death of Cunit Hit! •ii-Hcto:o!cr, h.ifoiV* the Kaiser at fin entertainment given by the Eur.stenliurgs: The exceptionally .‘■mart and brilliant com: any a. oemhled after dinner in the beautiful great ha'l of the tasile. with :t hard placing on the staircase. Suddenly Count lltdscull;v.sr!er anpeared in lailot-skids not far the lir-i time and In-gan to dame to the music. Everybody found it most out retaining, for the count daired l>caiitifu!ly. and it i- an tinn si: 1 1 exierieme to see a ( iliel ol tl'.e Military Ca'iinct capering, about in the costume ol a lady the hallet. Just as tin- | ei'.'ormam e ended a lit ivy (lii-’u 'a- heard an 1 ('mint ITnC-n Wits found lying on the ground dying. Dot tors arrived and, w hile the hand continued playing, stiove to restore him. hut mithing (.ould he done. As a spe: illicit of Willhani lI.V humour this liddle is given; “What is the slilference hetween a lumher-ili-law and a good Havana ( igar f" Naturallv noh.c Iv know life answer, and he said: “In the* ease ot a good (igar we prefer tin* first breath we draw, hut in the cn*e ef a mother-in-law it is the la*-; breath she draws list we like the lie-t." This, lie ] •ofe-s- d. was telegraphed to him from I. onion Ly Col. Swainc. tin* former British military attache.