THE EX-KAISER

Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1929, Page 3

THE EX-KAISER

NEW ABUSE OF ENGLAND. LONDON, October 17. A brilliant pen picture of the exiled ex-Ivaiser, still defiant and unrepentant in his retreat at Doom, Holland, i... given bv Brigader-General AY. H. H. Waters in a particularly attractive V-to or number of the “Quarterly Review.” \je..jral AYaters, who was malitary attache at J orlin. from 1930 to 1903. anu was chief of the British Alission to the Imperial Russian General Headquarters in 1910, had not seen the exKaiser sin e 1903 until last year, when he was invited tr poo n. In the letter of invitation the exKaiser showed how angry he still is with the British people. He wrote:

An ocean of abuse, vilification, inlaniy, slanders, and lies has rolled over me coming from Bond in, disclosing a spirit of debased, venomous hatred I never imagined in the British people, so proud of “ air play”!

8L I AKIN oi BID . ALMS SUIUWWS. He laments tnat this shoulcf com<from a people among whom he was no stranger; since he “had shared tiled national sorrows 1 with them twice, when they lost their' great Gucen \ 7 i • tori a and when they mourned King Edward.” ; 1. Referring to -his visit'for the funeral d King Edward tile ex Kaiser wrote:

And when King George and I stood in Westminster Hall before the catafalque of King Edward, and I firmly grasped King George’s hand, I firmly believed that this act' was to cement a rinn basis of friendship for ourtimitual countries. Then comes the characteristic touch of egoism: It is a very extraordinary fact that British statesmen never realised what happy combination (Providence had procured for them by. placing the eldest grandson of the great Queen Victoria on the throne of Germany! Her Majesty did so! “VILE BRITISH INTRIGUES.” The ex-Ka.iser follows with a violent protest against the shattering of his dream and declaims: I—instead of an ally—became the '. reh-fiend, the Hun. Attila, and I had to undergo the ordeal of lies, slanders, misrepresentations, venomous hostility the like of which was never spent noon any ruler at the hands of Britain. And when she was on the verge of losing the unjust war she had for many years “engineered’ against in and my country, she lied Ameri a into the fight and Bought the subversive parts of my pe :ple with money to rise against their ruler, who for four years had kept German soil from the heel of the invader.

And then, 'after the revolution had succeeded, Britain showed her gratitude by starving the people she bought into submission of the .“hungerbjpkude’’ after the war was ended.

I shall with pleasure look forward to your visit to Doom, where.J reside as an outcast by the vile intrigues oi British statesmen.

The Kaiser discussed with General Waters many subjects with frankness, and soon made it clear that he is as much annoyed with the Germans a with the English. “If the Germans want me they shall come to fetch me after the way which they treated me,” he exclaimed. ~ .W BELGIUM WAS INVADED.

A new reason for- the invasion of ”elgium, which brought Britain into the war, was offered by the ex-Kaiser when asked by General Waters for an explanation of that act. He said:

We went into that matter in great detail and decided to invade Belgium at once because she had already forfeited her neutrality. Both you anu the French had sent stores and munitions of war there before August, with tne consent of the Belgian Government.

General Waters told the ex-Kaiser that he could not believe that any member of Mr Asquith’s Cabinet in 1914 had ever known of this alleged conduct.

An intimate picture of the ex-Kaiser is given by the Empress Hermine, the ex-Kaisers second wife, who said to General Waters:

You know my husband is very proud and nothing will ever induce him to try to retain his throne by intrigue, like Charles of Austria. If the Germans want him hack, they must ask him, and bring him hack. So the ex-Kaiser is likely to remain an “outcast” at Doom, hut, as he declares, unmoved by criticism, as “my hide is now elephantine.”