BULOW’S' BIRTHDAY BEHIND BARBED WIRE.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 August 1919, Page 8

BULOW’S' BIRTHDAY BEHIND BARBED WIRE.

Prince Bulow, a. ti-agic—comic symbol of down-at-the-heel Germaify, has celebreated his seventieth birthday among the barbed Wire entanglements and mar=,hine-guns that safeguard the Hotel Eden in Berlin ‘West.“After peace has her-21 signed,” ren?arks the “Berliner Tageblatt,” With an evidently’ satirie.a.l dig at his war ‘nook o-E memoirs, “he will probably withdraw to the quiet of "his Roman villa, there to write the sad story of the Wilhelmian epoch, of which no man knows more than he..” “He was the biggest among all the little followers of Bismarck,” says the “Hamburger N.'£l’chrichten,” and goes on to lament “the lost—fol--ever oppor-‘ tunity which a good Providence gave to Germany of smashing France and England for over,” at the time of the Morocco crisis, “while Russia was still cxliausted” from the war with Japan. “Alas;’ it says, “our Kaiser could not spur himself to a decision i - time, and the heaven-sent opportunity passcd. Bittel'ly' must he now do penance for his love of peace at any price.”