EX-KAISER'S CONSCIENCE.

Taihape Daily Times, 17 May 1919, Page 7

EX-KAISER'S CONSCIENCE.

An old acquaintance of the ex-Kalser gives a remarkable account to the Cologne correspondent of the Rotterdam "Massbode" of a visit lie paid to the ex-monarch on the latter»s birthday on January 27. Although very many flowers had arrived from Holland and Germany, and everything had been done to make the day as festive as possible, the ex-Kaiser could not for one moment be roused from his condition of morbid uneasiness. The ex-Kaiser starts whenever anyone approaches him.

When the visitor went towards him he receded a step or two in alarm, and ar first did n°t recognise him. His Majesty subsequently unburdened his mind in a flood of words, and told his visitor his trouble's', Wjiat he said gave the impression of a man who was on the brink of complete mental collapse.

The correspondent's informant described the ex-Emperor as an old man bowed and worn out. with snow white hair and dressed in an untidy uniform, which scorned to hang round the skeleton of a man who starts at the slightest ncise and shuns everyone.