KAISER "MUCH AMUSED."

Taihape Daily Times, 8 January 1918, Page 5

KAISER "MUCH AMUSED."

LUNCH ON GALLIPOLI IN AN ENGLISH TENT. Amsterdam. Before concluding his visit to Constantinople, the Kaiser made a voyage in the Goeben and inspected the Dardanelles and Gallipoli battlefields.

According to Herr Karl Rosner, the Kaiser's special war correspondent, the sight "made a deep impression on the All Highest," who once more took occasion to express his violent hatred of the English, and to explain to his Turkish friends that without the aid of Germany, Constantinople could uot have resisted for two days the onslaughts of the Allies.

The Kaiser lunched inside an English army tent which still bore the name of its London maker, and this incident, says the correspondent, "so greatly amused the War Lord that he caused the Imperial standard to be planted in front of the tent." A circumstance which added to the splendour of the occasion was the fact that the Kaiser wore for the first time the full uniform of a Turkish field-mar-shal.

The Kaiser visited the grave of Field-Marshal von der Goltz, inside the garden of fee German Embassy at Therapia,. and immediately telegraphed to Baroness von der Goltz: "I am sending you an ivy leaf taken from the tomb of your unforgettable husband. I think of him with gratitude, and want to give you pleasure by sending you this souvenir."

The Kaiser is expected to arrive in Berlin to-morrow for the celebration of the Kaiserin's birthday.