KAISERISM.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1921, Page 5

KAISERISM.

PLANS FOR REVIVAL. PRUSSIA’S OLD SPIRIT. EMPIRE REQUIRES MONARCHY. By Telegraph.—Press Received Feb. 8, 11.55 p.m. London, Feb. 7. The Daily Chronicle’s Berlin correspondent says the parties of the Right are making a tremendous campaign to secure a majority at the Russian elections this month, believing the death knell of the German Republic will revive the old Prussianised Germany, and will be a prelude to a victorious struggle to restore the Monarchy. Their confidence is shown by their boldness in using the battle cry, “Strong Prussia under the Hohenzollerna.” Their banner is the Prussian Black Eagle. The Republic parties are divided and disunited, whereas the Conservatives present a united front. The so-called National People’s Party, representing the Junkers, and the People’s Party, representing the great industrialists, have begun a vigorous campaign with a proclamation eulogising Prussia’s oIH place in the German Empire and the virtues of the Hohenzollerns. The Nationalists’ manifesto says:— “This day decides whether the work of the great Hohenzollerns and Bismark shall be ruined, or whether Prussia will regain the old path to greatness and glory. Nationalists everywhere in Germany are looking to Prussia to free them from French insolence and British malice, and to enable German colors to wave proudly again over the world’s seas.” Herr Westrap and Dr. Hergt, Conservative leaders, in a manifesto, say: “We will only be a sound nation when we again have a Kaiser.” One leading propagandist of the People’s Party, Dr. Boelitz, says: “Unity of Empire can only be founded on the Kaiser idea.” Dr. Stressman announced that the Treaty of Verseilles is only an episode; Germany has not yet fulfilled her mis-sion.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.