Pictures of the Kaiser.
AS SEWN liY TilU GERMANS. Received this day, 11.40 a.m. London, December 9. The Daily Express's correspondent inter viewed Herr Mas Harden, flic German journalist, who gave « laughable picture of the Kaiser strutting up and down the decks of warships at Kiel and revelling in the booming of guns and the cheers of sailors. The fleet was the Kaiser's plaything—he was never lhappier than when posing in the pose, wheflhter as a great warrior, horseman or as a sailor. The Kaiser missed his vocation; he should have managed a. cabaret or have been a touring showman. Ho added: "You know what I suffered because of the Ivaiser. The impressions abroad regarding the Kaiser are false." Harden added t'lvat foreigners saw only the facade and not the interior. The Kaiser, owing to physical infirmities, could not dress himself, and could not eat without a special gold implement, whieh consisted of a combined knife and fork. Harden stated that ho knew Germany must be defeated oven before America's entry. When America declared war he tough t with the German censors to tell the people the truth. Harden pressed the authorities to accept President Wilson's Fourteen Points, knowiiig that they would never got better terms. He concluded: The armistice terms a/fe of the hardest; if peace is based 011 thorae terms, Germany will be ruined. There are millions of sincere Germans. The Allies should not treat vis as militarists, but OS.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 10 December 1918, Page 3
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