KAISER WILHELM

Taihape Daily Times, 21 May 1918, Page 3

KAISER WILHELM

WARNED OF GRAVE DISASTER. Prince Maximilian, the amiable heir to the throne of Baden, who incurred the grave displeasure of the Kaiser in January, 1917, by protesting publicly against the brutality of the Huns, still J has hopes, it appears, of saving "Geri many's good name." Some two months ago he was engaged in putting forward a peace "ieeler" of a rather curious kind, and he has now again given a mysterious interview to the notorious Dr. Mantler the director .of the still more notorious Wolff Bureau.

Prince Max urges, tragically late in the day, that Germany should adopt "an honest, Christian spirit." Thus: "The spirit of mutual destruction that prevails among the belligerent rations is a moral infection which, if it is not to spread to every corner of the earth, must be crushed without delay. Germany must declare that she recognises the rights of other peoples, and that she is determined to satisfy those rights. It is not within cur own borders solely that our name should have a good sound. Germany may not risk losing her moral position in the world. If she did all her victories would bring her but shame, dishonour, and, finally, disintegration and death. All would be won if only the nations had gone""~so"" far as To be ready to talk with one another, without any claims to infallibility, but rather in an honest Christian spirit. Only he who fears that negotiations would expose the impurity of his own and the purity of the enemy demands can shun a conference as a guilty criminal shuns justice, and on him will be the guilt if the hell of last year be let loose afresh."