THE KAISER’S GUILT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 27, 30 September 1915, Page 4

THE KAISER’S GUILT.

The new mood of Germany iti regard lo the submarine campaign against merchant shipping may perhaps be de scribed as encouraging, but no British reader would care to accept the Ge;man assurance at its face value, says the Lyttelton Times. The newspapers that are under German inspiration have labored persistently to create toe impression that the breaches of the law of nations have had the grave disapproval of the Kaiser, anJ the neutral world has been asked, in oh set, to admire the spectacle of a mighty monarch overruled by pirates in his employ. A little story told by Mr ltdward Legge, in his “Life of Wilhenn II.,” goes to show, however, that thf Kaiser knew all about the Lusitania crime. “An American gentleman,” says Mr Legge. “who had founded an organisation for succouring our troops and those of our Allies was sending his son out to further this benevolent work. Having been long on intimate terms with the Emperor he wrote to inform him that his soil would be passing through Germany and to expiess the hope that the young man would not be interfered with.. By return of post came a letter from the Kaiser :n his own peculiar handwriting, imploring his friend not to all ow his sou to take passage to England on board the Lusitania. Ballin and Berustorff may have suggested the commission of the crime, but we have here the Kaiser’s own written admission that he knew all about it and sanctioned it. Lord Halshnry’s words, uttered, in public in November. 1914; ‘The Kaiser ought to he hanged.’ seem weak in the summer of 1915.”