The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1915. AMBITIOUS KAISERDOM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 91, 20 April 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1915. AMBITIOUS KAISERDOM.

An impression has long existed among the German people, according to a writer in the London Commercial Record that one may find in the life of Prussian Wilhelm a type of the career of the Great Napoleon. From some points of view this is merely ludicrous, but as regards boundless ambition may be all right. But it is certainly not so when military qualifications are included in such a comparison. The writer in the London journal goes on to say that possibly it may be just as well not to enter into any speculation at the present, hut curb our impatience and wait and see whether the fall of this mighty autocrat will he even more severe than that of his great prototype. The view is also expressed that such a fall is inevitable, and the world wails and watches for it. Germany, in the clutches of an avaricious war-party, has indeed for some years been playing a game of grab very prettily, and in her full state of preparedness was quite willing to try conclusions with any country or countries who dare to place right before might. She pleased herself with intruded alterations in the map of the world, and extended over a great number of years, applied herself to the studies

ol geography, nationalities, and war. She completed a most excellent plan, one which required an immoderate expense to execute and a vast length of time in order to bring it to perfection. She apparently derived great amusement from her map-drawing. Kven now, if her soldiers cannot put her in possession of entire Belgium and the Northern French provinces, her geographical professors with their paint brushes easily make it appear as though they had. Of course other countries merely laugh at such folly. ''We have been," the Record concludes, "patient watchers of the Kaiser with the assistance of a scheming party, persistently going on to re-ar-range the geography of the whole world, and ii is really surprising they did not embrace the settlement of the Solar system. According to a certain journal in Germany, Great Britain lias long been marked down as a Teutonic Confederacy, though a published map reserved Cornwall and Devon for Britishers not satisfied with their rule of power. Sue)] kindness on their part really overwhelms us as we must of necessity fail to understand why they should allow u> some remnant of the Empire over v\ hit I) jhe •mi never sets."