CROWN PRINCE’S BLAME

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1928, Page 4

CROWN PRINCE’S BLAME

FOR KAISER’S FALL

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

LONDON, October 22. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” states: What the Crown Prince would have done to prevent his father’s abdication is revealed in a letter by himself in August, 1919, .and published in the “ AVeltammon Tag,” in which he attacks a number of leading figures of present-day Germany. Wilhelm says that he knew nothing of what was going on until he discovered there was a so-called Assembly of Officers, and then he warned the Kaiser that the troops were disloyal. He added: “ Aly storm regiment only needed a call to defend the Kaiser with their blood. I am filled with quivering fury to think of it.” AVilheim particularly attacks Prince Alan, 1 the last Imperial Chancellor, as ”:i muddled feeble autopist,” an “untrustworthy coward, who only fought behind the front, and did not even write his own famous speeches.” According to AVilhelm, General Croner, the present Reiehsweir Alinister, was the other prime mover in a “put up job ” by failing to consult the Kaiser, and should have been courtmartialled. President Von Hindenburg and Colonel Aleye, the present Chief of Staff, are likewise assailed for giving the assembled officers a black account of the conditions at the front.

“If His Alajesty had spoken to them like Frederic the Great,” writes the Crown Prince, “they would all have rallied round him. When I left the Kaiser he waß determined to stand fast. 1 wanted to expel the whole revolutionary crew.”

Significantly, AVilhelm praises General Ludendorff, whose removal, lie says, was the beginning of the end. “ He would never have been a party* to Sbameles’s game.” AVilhelm, however, admits Germany could not have won.”