“MAD DOG OF EUROPE.”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 49, 14 October 1914, Page 7

“MAD DOG OF EUROPE.”

For many years 1 have lived in close| contact with members ot the Kaiser's, household, and 1 believe that lew poo pie are better qualified than myseL to form a just estimate of the charm ter of this singular and terrible man writes u lady LLgrapLcr. “lie is tl.v mad dog of Europe,” T hoard it sail, of him the other day by a (forma: Socialist who hates the Avar. “He i the mad dog of Europe. He ought either to be shut up or shot down.” But 1 deny that the Kaiser is mod It is not the devil of insanity that posseses him, but the devil of vanity. On a bitter January night. 59 years ago, the future Kaiser was born into the world. For days beforehand his mojther had been in a state of hysteria, or morbid fear; so much so that jt was feared hoi- reason would go, and that the child would come into the world a corpse. When at length the infant was born it made not the slightest sound or movement. “Dead.” sail the doctors. But an old nurse grabbe up the baby and slapped it on the bach with a wet towel, ft gasped, whin: pered. and began to breathe. But fo: that nurse with the wet towel the child would have assuredly died.