THE KAISER’S LETTERS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3377, 5 January 1920, Page 5

THE KAISER’S LETTERS.

INTERNAL FOES. ANARCHY, REPUBLICISM. FEAR OF THE FRENCH. LONDON, Jan. 2. “ Chauvinistic, Republican France, Intriguing, and Ridiculous England,” afford tlie subjects of the Imperial homily in to-day’s series of the Kaiser’s letters. The sixth letter, dated September, 1895,referring to the Far East, urges the necessity of uniting to resist Buddhism, heathenism, and barbarism, for the defence of the Cross, and adds that the united assistance of all European Powers is equally necessary against our common internal foes, anarchism, republicism, and nihilism. The Kaiser proceeds to refer to the reforms in the French army, involving the proposal to form “a new Continental army on my western frontier. This proposal has fallen like a thunderbolt, and has created deep alarm in Germany, particularly as the French papers are telling us -that the army is meant to rush our borderland in a war of revenge.” The Kaiser continued: “This event happening at the moment your officers ar e being decorated, and M. Lobanoff, the Russian ambassador feted by France, has given affairs an ugly look, as if Russia would like France to be on the offiensive against Germany. God knows, I hav e done all in my power to preserve peace, but if France goes on, openly or secretly encouraged lik e this, to violate all rules of international courtesy and peace in peace times, one fine day, my dearest Nicky, you will find yourself suddenly embroiled in th e most horrible war Europe ever saw, by which the masses and history, perhaps, may be fixed upon you as the cause.

“If you are allied to th 0 French, keep these damned scoundrels in order; if you cannot, don’t let your men go to France. Make the French believe you are allied, 'and turn their heads until they lose them, and we fight in Europe, instead of for it. against the East.

The seventh letter discusses the dangers to monarchies, and says: “Is it not a fact that the friendship of Russia and Franco makes one uneasy? Every sovereign is the sole master of his country’s interests, and shapes his policy (accordingly, but danger is brought, to our principles of Monarchism through lifting the Republic to a pedestal by the form under which that friendship is shown. ‘*■ The constant .appearance of princes, grand dukes, statesmen, and generals in full rig at reviews, burials, dinners, and races with the head of the Republic makes Republicans believe that they are quite honest, excellent people, with whom the princes can' corsort. Don’t forget that Jaurcs sits on the Throne of the King and Queen of France by the grace of god, whose heads the French Republicans cut off. Nicky, ta'fre my w r ord for it, the curse of God has stricken that people for ever. We Christian Kings and Emperors have one holy duty imposed by heaven, to uphold the principle of Monarchism. By the grace of God w r e e'an. We must have good relations with Republican France, hut never be intimate with her.” . ,

Dealing' 1 with England, the Kaiser says that Lobanoff’s news during his visit to Berlin that there was reason to suspect that England was after the Dardanelles stupefied him. He adds: "The quaint way the fleet sulks around the Dardanelles indicates that England means something there. M. Malet, during a farewell visit to the Foreign Office, used very blustering words about Germany behaving badly to England in Africa, adding that after

buying off France by concessions m Egypt, England would be at liberty to look after us. Ho was even so undiplomatic as to utter the word war. I answered tbat the Efritish were nraking themselves ridiculous. If they got inv 0 trouble with anybody 1 wouldn’t move a Pomeranian grenadier to help them. I gupp ose that would ecol them.” The eighth letter, dated January, 189(1, deals with the Jameson .raid, and says: “The Transvaal Republic, has been attached in the most foul way, apparently not without England’s knowledge. I used very severe language in London, and also opened communication with Paris for the common defence of our endangered interests, but I will never allow the British to stamp out the Transvaal.”