KAISER'S "HAPPY FAMILY."

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 6 December 1916, Page 2

KAISER'S "HAPPY FAMILY."

HINDENBUKG CHOSEN TO BE WHIPPING-BOY IN DEFEAT.

Hindenburg's appointment tu be Chief of the German General Staff (Colonel Gablonsky writes) may well bo due largely to dynastic and political considerations. '*

Falkenhayn warned the Kaiser that the situation was really serious. Though not wholly convinced, the Kaiser reflected that if things really went badly, the German people would .make his Imperial self the scapegoat. The idea of appointing Hindenburg arose from j, desire to find another scapegoat. Personally, the Kaiser detests Hindenburg, being intensely jealous of the lattcr's popularity. But he thought ;o himself: "If tilings go well, there

,\-ill i.»o enough time to deal with Hin- ■ enburg's dangerous popularity; on the other hand, if things go ba'dly, all the blame must be loaded upon Hindenburg." "I believe," adds the colonel, in the article, which the Wireless Press quotes from Zurich, "that Falkenhayn is in the game. Ho has not been dismissed, but has been attached in a .special capacity to the Kaiser's military cabinet. This means that he remains the Kaiser's most intimate military adviser. He, too, detests Hindenburg."