GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 162, 15 December 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

TITE KAISER'S ILLNESS. THROAT TROUBLE. DOCTORS ORDER. COMPLETE b REST. . d p London, December 13. Tlie Chronicle states that private advices from Berlin declare that the Kaiser's chest trouble has seriously affected his throat, and that an operation is necessary. The doctors have prescribed absolute quiet for at least a month. Nevertheless, the Kaiser is re- c fractory, anil continues to send orders j ( and suggestions to the eastern army. { AMERICA AS PEACEMAKER. Amstrdam, December 13. 1 The Kolnixche Zeitung, referring to Mr Wilson's d'.'siiv that America should play an important rule in the conclusion f of peace, declares that Germany has not inspired the peace movement in the United States. American bankers, with German names, in strongly urging the desirability of peace, render a doubtful service to Germany, as their language is . likely to be interpreted to mean that S Germany is exhausted and will tend to injure German credit in the neutral States. Notwithstanding expression of friendliness from some quarters in America, it would be an ostrich-like policy not to recognise that public opinion is on the whole, entirely friendly to Britain. It may be argued that Washington has observed the strictest neutrality, but one can be neutral in an indifferent manner and on the whole American neutrality has been favorable to Britain. This is natural, because Britain is America's motherland, but that is the reason we fear her prejudice and must in a friendly n ill-in manner reject. America a:-: an arbip