HOW THE KAISER WAS HOODWINKED.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1920, Page 5

HOW THE KAISER WAS HOODWINKED.

[treated as nonentity by his j WAK STAFF. The keynote of Princess Blncher's book "An English Wife in Berlin," Just published, is in this sentence: "I sometimes feci fairly rent in two, between love of my family and' native land and love and loyalty to my husband and his country for his sake." In August, 1914, Prince and Princess Blucher were in England. On the declaration of war they travelled with the German Ambassador to Germany, and stayed there throughout the war. She reports that the wife of the man who invented poison gas—herself a doctor of chemistry—committed suicide when she saw what use was being made of their inventions. In May, 101(1, "to our great astonishment we have been asked to undertake a little peace movement on our own account. ... In answer to my objection that my letter would probably never pass the English Censor, they replied that it would not, go by post at all, but by special messenger and that I could see the very man who would personally place my letters 011 any writing table in London. . . . They actually seem to have succeeded, moreover, for after I had with considerable qualms of conscience committed myself to the letter, a reply reached me in due course which I will not quote." Jn February, 1019, "a friend came in to i spend the evening with us yesterday, and had come straight from Amerongen, where he had spent two hours with the Emperor. ... He complained most bitterly that he was deceived and lied to from the outset of his reign, and especially throughout the war. His Ministers never told him the truth, his military authorities never let him know how tilings really were, and the naval authorities quoted and stated absolutely fabricated figures. . . . The Kaiser says he was treated as a nonentity by his General Staff; that they made a point of contradicting every order of command that he gave. My informant also told me that the Kaiser deeply regretted the death of Miss Cavell, and that the order for the execution had been given by a drunken general who was personally vindictive toward* Eng. JaiuV . •