THE KAISER INSANE.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1915, Page 12

THE KAISER INSANE.

«, The Raiser, in the op'nion of Dr. A. i McL. Hamilton, is insane. Dr. Hamilton jis the leading alienist in the United I States, and in an article in the North j American Review says:—''There are ■ many instances of cruelty for which be jis undoubtedly responsible—including the j use of poisonous gas on the western j battlefields and welt-poisoning in South. j West Africa—that show his belief in 1 the power of extermination given him ■by God, which he delusively holds. A ; more practical reaction to mi insane idea) cannot be found than this. Kaiser : Wilhelm (he Second is mentally con-! ; -tituted like many others who at different times in the history of the world have led vast bodies of obsessed men, , and who have been Idealised and invest'ed with exaggerated attributes, both heroic and religious. Some men of little j force and small knowledge fail by the j wayside as soon as the 'magnetism' of Ibtieir personal influence wanes, or the excitement connected with a common 1 cause diminishes. Others continue to impress their fellows, indefinitely winning the ignorant by their picturesque claims, and often 'doing thing.-;'. . , . His enmity towards England is especially unbounded and morbid, and quite uncalled for. This is not a matter of the past few months, but of years. . . . He and his advisers are shrewd and sharp, hut so far as he is concerned this is not strange, for some of the worst paranoids are above the average in eer Itain intellectual directions, and are capable and resourceful. . , . That the mental makeup of the Kaiser may be Us undoing is evident to most people. In these civilised days theatrical display and tile warlike methods of Attila, 'The Scourge of God,' may for .1 time succeed, but when a madman directs the conduct of war it can only end in defeat."