THE EX-KAISER.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1918, Page 5

THE EX-KAISER.

THE ABDICATION SCEME. hixdenburg takes part, kaiser gob? -err ix silexce. 'Received Dec. 4, 8.50 p.m. . . _ Paris, Doc. 2. The British Armistice Commission occupy the Ksiser"s house at Spa. Persons living in the Chancellor's house revealed that von Hiudebur 2 arranged the Kaiser's abdication on November S, after half an hour'.-' discussion in a bedroom of the Hotel Brittanique, at the end of which the Kaiser reappeared, stepped into a motor-car without a word of farewell to the staff, and went into exile.—Aus.-N'Z. Cable Asso ar.d Router.

THE KAISER'S EXTRADITION. POSITION OF MATTERS DISCUSSED. HIS FLIGHT CONDEMNED. Received Dec. 4. 7.50 p.m. . London, Dec. 3. The Daily Express, referring to the Allies' demanding the surrender of the Kaiser by the Netherlands, gays the opinion is held that tha Netherlands will not put any difficulties in t~e way. Wilhelm's position will he analogov.s to that pt a pirate or slave trader who has not been "ranted sanctuary by any country. The Morning Post ;ayo is 'u possible the document purporting to he a formal abdication is genuine, and it in equally possible it is nothing of the Und. In either case the instrument eontainß no word concerning the accession of the dynasty, nor is it counter-signed by any responsible official. It is also worthy of mention that it wa* signed when there \va% a popular clamor for ln§ extradition. The hospitality of Holleud has been abused.

German advices *tate that the flight of ilie Kaiser is condemned in many quarters, particularly among the soldiers. D.\ Steinager, professor of law, writing in Dcr Tag, says J ,no criticism is too strong, because tlia Emperor's action was nnkingly, unsoldierly, inmanlv, and served to give the deathblow to monsrehial idea". In Germany a monarch cannot run awav like a schoolboyIf he thought himself incapable of retaining his position, the battlefront offered him an opportunity of ai least mak>n« a kingly and dignified exit.— Aiis.-N.Z. Cable Assoc-

STRONG MORAL CLAIMS. FOR KAISER'S EXTRADITION. Received Dee. 4. 11.35 p.m. London, Dee. The Attorney-fieneral declares that our right to press for the Kaiser's extradition on legal grounds is merely subsidiary. We have a much stronger moral claim. Holland must realise that a country which shelters a criminal is scarcely entitled to inclusion in a league of nations—Aus. X.Z. Cable Association and Renter

THE KAISER'S ABDICATION. PRESS COMMENTS 01\ CROW.? PPiIXCi^. Received Dec. 4. 7.50 p.m. Amsterdam, Dec. 3. A Reuter message, via America, states that the Manchester Guardian comments on the Kaiser's formal abdication as being tardy, and this document, executed no recently as last Friday, lie issues under "Our Imperial seal." As the Crown Prince has not, so far, executed a similar deed, it is natural to conclude that he reserves Ilia claim as iHr to his father, and is waiting an opportunity to enforce it.

CROWN PRINCE INTERVIEWED army chiefs lost their heads. TOLD TO MIND HIS OWN BUSINESS. Received Dec. 4, $.5 p.miJlew York", Dec. 3. Interviewed in Holland by an American -orrespondent, the ex-Crown Prince denied that he had relinquished any rights of succession. He was convinced that Germany had lost the war in October, 1014, but would not have done so if the chiefs of the General Staff had not lost their heads and tried to make peace then even at the sacrifice of AlsaceLorraine, but ho was told to mand his own business and con fljie huiisel^t o commanding—Aus.-N.Z- Cab.e Assoc. HOHENZOLLERN PRINCESS. MAY DEPART EMPTY-HANDED. the jews threatened. Received Dec. r>, 12.15 a.m. Vancouver, Dec. .5. The German Government has consented to permit a number of the Hoheruolton princes to leave G ™y7 r £ thev leave their fortunes behind. Prince August Wilhelm and his wife are going lin charging all Jews with .being slackers, and attacking Herr Eisner head of the Bavarian Government. Other placards urge a pogrom.—Reuter. "RETIRED INTO PRIVATE LIFE." New York, Dec. 3. The United Press Amsterdam correspondent, who asked for an interview with the Kaiser, received a telegwn from the Kaiser's secretary saying that the Kaiser wished to express his views to America; where he still had friends but could not do so, since he had retired into