GERMAN REVELATIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 83, 16 July 1910, Page 9

GERMAN REVELATIONS.

DID PRINCE BUELOW " BETRAY " THE KAISER? Under the title "Der Deutsche Machthabler," the well-known political writer and ex-Government official Herr Martin has published a study of the leading personality of contemporary Germany, which will certainly lead to much angry discussion. The book throws a new light on recents events, supported by a free use of names and references to documentary evidence, and it is remarkable for a fierce attack upon Prince Buelow, whose fall Herr Martin traces to the famous "Daily .Telegraph" interview.

Herr Martin accuses the ex-Chancel-lor of betraying His Imperial Master, and of deceiving the Reichstag and the nation by allowing it to be believed that the interview was the Emperor's own act. The interview never took place, but the Kaiser repeatedly wrote to IPrince Buelow from Highcliffe Castle giving him particulars of his table-talk *rith various friends there. These utterances were put together at the Foreign Office with the full approval of Prince Buelow in the form of an interview which leached the "Daily Telegraph" through the agency of a well-known English journalist. Articles containing substantially the same information appeared shortly afterwards, and the whole was a concerted plan to influence British opinion in favor of Germany and against France. When, unexpectedly, the explosion came, declares Herr Martin, Prince Buelow threw the respomsrbility upon the Emperor, who never forgave him. The point which roused most indignation in Germany was that the Emperor had apparently betrayed a Russian proposal to intervene in the Boer war to the English Royal Family. Maron von Eckhardstein, then Charge r'Affaires in London, now declares that he informed Lord Salisbury of the Russian proposal to intervene by Prince Buelow's" order. The book also declares that the Emperor never wrote the celebrated letter to Queen Victoria containing a stragetical plan for the overthrow of the Boers. During his visit to Windsor m November. 1.809, the Emperor, in the presence of Prince Buelow and Baron von Eckhardstein, discussed with his British relatives the strategy to be employed in South Africa. For the purposes of the interview it was thought best to make it look as if the Emperor had been spontaneously interviewed in both cases, and those in the secret are indignant at Prince Buelow's deserting the Emperor, and especially at his lea\-ii-io- the nation under the impression Unit the Emperor interfered irregularly in public affairs, and that he f™ - ensue to compass Prince Bue o „ downfall, because the Emperor h d decided that Prince Buelow's dismissal must come from the Reichstag. The truth about the interview *** trolly communicated to the leadcia o the CentrV. Herr Martin being pre c t „t the meeting. during tie ensi„ i " n . p . the linnnei.il reform negotiations : t , (vnth W as coiiimumoatod to tin ; lives, and Kerr Martm date. , . ,l,„isiou of (he two parties to dme j the Chancellor tVum ollice nt all cost, ; ,„ this lime. When Pvmce i'nio Kiel to ask the Emperor for the : Solution of the Reichstag thinking I that a'l wis well between His Majesty ! -md himself, he was astounded to meet i '„.jti, a blunt refusal and an intimation 1 tint his resignation would be preter-

The book contains a remarkable ac,.o.i»t of a former interview between Tup Fjlll povov and Prince Buelow. in which His MinVtv taxed the Chancellor with betvavincv him over the interview. Prince Buelow denying the charge with tears in his eyes—Renter.