KAISER FEELS DEATH TREMOR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 23, 28 January 1916, Page 3

KAISER FEELS DEATH TREMOR.

FORMER FRENCH PREMIER’S MESSAGE.

In a special Christmas Day message

sent by cablegram to the leading newspaper of California, M. Georges iClemenceau, the former Premier of \France, said: “The Teutons and the Bulgarians, seconded in an underhand way by King Constantine ,are going to hurl themselve s soon upon Salonika. “They can be sure of getting a suitj able' reception from General Sarrail’s men, but I would rather sec French bravery usefully employed than celebrated in dithyrambics. “The sole quesction confronting us is what strategical advantages are we going to obtain at Salonika. The persons most convinced of the efficacy of our Balkan policy cannot say that we are to gain anything'there unless we send a great many more troops, yet I don't believe that any chief would ‘accept the responsibility of weakening our front in France just when the whole of the European Press is an-

nouncing a supreme German effort to break through. “The Kaiser is feeling the first I death tremors. While the Teutons appeals for peace go unechoed, the German peoples arc asking themselves whether they are not going to fcmash themselves against an aggregation of force which their ‘junkers’ and professors have stupidly underrated. “The wastage in effectives, the street riots in Berlin, and the growing misery caused by the scientific apportionment of food all attest that the Kaiser feels the rod of domination shaking in hi s hand. “Where can he deliver his supreme blow? His Russian advance has led only to exhaustion of his effectives. “Even Count Tisza cannot check the peace clamour which is sweeping over Austria-Hungary,, which has been torn asunder by misfortunes. “The campaigns in the East—Mesopotamia and Egypt—are Pyrrhian dreams. Phantasmagoria of delirious imagination cannot create armies.

“But now the supreme opportunity arrives. It is to try to march to Paris again from the line the Germans have held for sixteen month despite our efforts,, and whose most salient point toward the capital is Noyon. It may be .only nn empty threat, but who in Prance will dare to ignore it; who will dare to weaken our western front by a single French troop or a single gun.”