A SILVER BIRTHDAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 14, 17 June 1913, Page 5

A SILVER BIRTHDAY.

THE KAISER'S ACCESSION. TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY.' By Cable I—Press 1 —Press Association—Copyright. Berlin, June 15. The twenty-fifth anniversary of" the Kaisers' accession is being celebrated throughout Germany to-day by lavish decorations, fetes and inscriptions of the Kaiser's famous utterances, -including "Our future lies on water." Germans in England raised £37,000, which the Kaiser is devoting to the aged and infirm Germans in Britain. During the commemoration ceremony in the Reichstag, the President described the Kaiser as the Prince of Peace, and added: "We draw our swords only to defend the means of existence of the German peoples."

GENERAL CONGRATULATIONS. CHURCH SERVICES. Received''^?,>2>3o.a.m.* Y" J • ■ '<' r "..' London; June Tffi:/ Th e newspapers' make : friendly references to the Kaiser's jubilee, and tjie chief events of his reign.are featured.: The Lord Ma'yph fe*wUrde'd the' Kaiser* the city's good .-;■>,. ■..'■ il 1 ., ' .ti-L Count Liehnowsky entertained a thbu- : sand German residents. ■ Thg:"King was* represented. There was a thanksgiving service-in the German Church. The whole diplomatic-corps attended. ■ . - ''*••' feerllh/june 10. Twenty-four thousand veterans attended an open-air, service at Tcinpelhoferfeld. 5 + ~ Services wore held in all the garrison churches in King Frederick's memory.