THE EX-KAISER.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1919, Page 5

THE EX-KAISER.

WISHES TO CHANGE HIS ABODE. Received May R, 1.30 a.m. London, May 4. The ex-Kaiser has a.sk»d the German Government s'or permission to return to liia Kadman estate in West Prussia.— Reuler.

EX-KAISER'S CONSCIENCE. Amsterdam, Feb. 18. An old acquaintance of the ex-Kaiser gives a remarkable account to the Cologne correspondent of the Rotterdam Maasbode of a visit to paid to the exmonarch on the latters birthday on January 27. Although very many flowers bed arrived from Holland and Germany, and everything had been done to make the day as festive as possible, the ex-Kaiser could not for one moment be roused from his condition of morbid uneasiness. The ex-Kaiser starts whenever anyone approaches him. When the visitor went towards him he receded a step or two in alarm, and at first did not recognise him. His Majesty subsequently unburdened his mind in a flood of words and told his visitor all hie troubles.

What he said gave the impression of a man who was on the brink of a complete mental collapse. The correspondent's informant described the ex-Emperor as an old man bowed and worn out, with snow white hair and dressed in an untidy uniform, whjch seemed to hang round the skeleton of a man who starts at the slightest noise and shuns everyone.