THE KAISER AND KAIO-CHAU

Taihape Daily Times, 22 May 1918, Page 7

THE KAISER AND KAIO-CHAU

South Africa will not hear of the surrender of Mittel Afrika to Germany; Australia and New Zealand are equally emphatic concerning tno Pacific Islands. What remains? asks the “Daily Chronicle." Not even Chiina, over whose Kiaochau so much ; German gold and blood have been unavailingly split. The Kaiser regarded its acquisition as an act of god, and acclaimed the treaty with China in an extraordinary telegram to his Chancellor, the late Prince Hohen.lohe. The statesman was mourning the death of his wife at the time the treaty was executed, and his royal master made one message suffice to signalise the death of a woman and the birth of a colony. “Although I am aivare,” he wired to his sorrow-stricken Chancellor, “that an outward joy cannot assuage a deep inward grief, yet I am filled with the most intense happiness that, but the grace of God. after the terrible blow which has fallen, such a splendid success has been granted you. It is fine reward for incessant sagacious work, and a proud compensation for anxieties endured. Pray accept my imperial gratitude and hearty congratulations! I have just emptied a glass of champagne in your honour.” Well, there is no German flag in Kioachau to-day.