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THE EX-KAISER'S BOOK.
A Skeleton of History. The following is a review by the Times of a book by the ex-Kaiser.; which has been pablished in Leipalg by K.F. Kochter at thei price of M.44. The English tran- (slation of the tills of the volume ไฟ "Comparative Historical Tables from 1878 to the Outbreak of War, 1-14,"|
It is aatural that those who have been occupied in great affairs- should spend the leisure which they enjoy in retirement by re hearsing once again all that they have done in order that they may | justify their actions'tɔ their con- idants, to the world, and to them. selves. Such justification appears all the more urgent to those whose life has ended in detest or disgrace, Bismarck at Friedrichs- ruhe and Sapoleon at St. Helens (never wearied in fighting over, jagain the old battles and explain-i
be their motives and purposes, ard it is natural enough that the Emperor Wilhare should do the
Bat the Emperor was no Bis- marck and no Napoleon. Any Joubt that might still have been entertained as to the mediderity of his intelligence and the weak- ness of des character would be Nasipated by a perusal of the contribution which he offers us as to the origins of the war. Here iwe have a man who for over five
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1922.
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and twenty years occupied the whom the German Emperor cites) German sea power so as to make! mentre of the stage in European as witnesses to character; and he | bis own country B rival and world polities, who talked goes erea beyond this; unsigned | England Any true record of his and gesticulated and dressed articles in Bussian and German reign written by himself must up as a king and a soldier Ir papers, the dress of the cuttings give the first prominence to this, was on his wit that the fate of na-f from the British Press and the as it had the first prominence in jn appeared to depend, and be,quotations We all know sall his acis and speeches at the made himself the spokesman of well, and in this galaxy we time. Bus it is now clear that it the ambitions of his own country. cau be sure that the Germunir est (was this above all which in His reign has ended in an unpar-delen to, and even Mr. F. C.freality led to Germany's down. alleled disaster, and there has Conybeste, will not be missing. (fall, and so we note that while be fallen uppa him a retribution so] It is the mere unsifted rubbish of finds space for long extracts from terrible and so just that it is dit the jumble sale, the scouring of the rather amateurish comments cult not to believe in a Providence the dus: heaps, the penny box df [of Belgian diplomatis:9. which arranges these things, for the second-band bookstall in growth of the Garman Beek is he is condemned during his life- Farringdon-street. And we know placed not in the forefront but in time to a fate as apt as any that it all so well. 1: is the the bac ground; there is not Rbadamanthus awarded to the basis of what the Germans single quotation from his C: tyrants of antiquity. He is for-call proprganda.. which has Bulow's speeches a3 to itt gotten and ignored, and from the served them for half a generation, purport and importance. obscurity of Amerongen watches and is still being scattered abroad A man with any greatness of the world which passes on ob for anyone who has leisure and soul, looking back on all that had Rvious of bir.
stupidity enough to read it. But happened, might indeed recognize What more natural than that what is important is that appar that he had often blundered, The should attempt to justify the ently The German Emperor but would no: fear to avow lects of his reign, even if it is only belleves in all; he thinks that is the great ambitions by which, for his own personal satisfaction? is worth while to place on recolhe had been inspired What was the real truth beliedjamong the evideners as to the land to show bow nearly (that figure, which to the diamant origin of the war what Mr. Frank success was attained. What hey Lobserver might appear so shipon. ttarris white in 1857, or what would not do would be to try to ing? What was the purpose of some German newspaper article | reconstruct history on the basis those words which from time tol says that some diplomatist of the j that Germany had throughout time re-echoed through the worligi Balkan- tells us that Sir Edward been on the defensive; be would We should like to know how inj Grey had said to somebody else. not obscure and iznore the chal. now all appears to high. But
lenge she had given to Europe those who turn to his production!
and the world. with hopes of this kind will come
THE CRITICAL DATE So much for the positive side.
It may be said that this work away disappointed. They will But on the negative side where was not meant for publication And in itnothing more vacuum, the German Empstor himself? It was prepared by the Emperor In form the work is similar tol
What did he do? What did he for his own use and communica the tabular collection of facts;
What was he aiming tion think?
to "bis intimate friends which is useful to an indu-tions
We know all that he lawing to some indiscretion copies schoolboy: it is the kind of thing said in public. We have read al of it were published in the Datab which the conscier tibus history most with incredulity the half. Press, and it is far this reason mistress in a secondary school insane comments which he wrote that he has no consented to an will compile for her pupila. we on such of the dispatches and authorised publication. Bat this End here put together what we telegrams as the German Foreign in reality only strengthens the may call a skeleton of history. Office forwardet to him. We criticisms we bare made, for it the essential dates, the treatieson, for instance, to the critical only shows that it is himself that the war, and the meetings of date. July 5, 1914. We know he is trying to deceive. kings and emperors. It we were from other sources what bappen- 4 letter was delivered writing a review of a history text-led then. book we might have some abfrom the Austrian Emperor to servations to make as to the the Kaiser and he personally manner in which these dates were arranted to the Austrian envoy selected and suggest minor im.his full support and approval of ing the signing of the Shantung provements, modifications, or cor- the proposed Austrian action. Treaty, the three Chinese Dele- rections for a second edition
We know also that when Tschirgates at Washington have cabled schky warned the Austrians to to the Peking Government to the be careful what they did, the following effect: After the best
ORIGIN OF THE WAR.
CHINESE DELEGATES AND THE TREATY.
Follow-
The Shupao reports
OX-
It is not this, however, to which Emperor ordered him to be repri- of their efforts have been we would on this occasion drawmanded and not talk such non-hausted, all the desires of the attention. It is the vacuity of sense. These were personal acts' people have not been attained. the whole and the nature of the of his as Sovereign; it was in | Japan has always been trying to comments attached. After all, obedience to bis instructions that keep the question pending. these tables have bear composed the German Government took Great Britain and the U. B. A. by one of the chief actors; surely the action which almost inevit- bave done their best to have a we might expect that he would ably led to war; it was this which compromise. They simply leave afford us something which we was the origin of all that was to the decision of the merit of their could not get from the ordinary follow. We turn to the tables work, whether right or wrong and published sources. Of this there which he himself has drawn up, whether gain or loss, for their is practically nothing. We find and what we find is :-
conscience and to the coming age. only a statement that in 1900 the The German Government con- If the people of Chias recoguise Tsar surprised alow and the siders the clearing up of the re-that the result is not right, it is Emperor by informing them that lations with Serbis as an Austrian desired that they. Shih-Chao-chi, he io e ded to go to war with affair, in which Germany will Ku Wei chun and Wang Chang- Japan as soon as possible, and not interfere.
hui, be dismissed from their posts to satisfy the public.
that King Edward in 1909 told. This is all what he does in the Emperor that the excitement) fact is not to state what really: in the public opinion and Press happened but once again to put in England in regard to the forward the diplomatic subterfuge
PLATE GLASS WINDOW. growth of the German Fleet was by which the German Govern. "Looking throngh my Toric Iudicrous a statement which we went tried to deceive the world. lenses is like looking through a besitste to accept in this form. subterfuge which has long azo fine plate glass window" said an Most significant is the com.been exposed. He is attempting American lady in the course of mopt; this is nearly always in to make others forget, be is her remarks while in a tram-car the form of quotations from the attempting himself to forget the the other day. She sail just the writings of external observers. essential part which he himself right thing. It cost a bit more to Among these great prominence played; He has not the courage build a plate glass window and it; is given to the well-known re-to acknowledge bis own actions, rost a bit more to make a pair of ports of the Belgian represent and rather than do so he would Toric lenses than the ordinary atives abroad, which were publish-represent himself as 8 mere flat kind. Torics,are more than ed by the German Government. figure-head.
worth the small difference in cost) We have plentiful excerpts And as in this case, so it la to you in the added comfort you from Buthenticated of un-throughout Nothing in bis derive from their 060. Toric authenticated rumours, current reign was more personal to bin- lenses of any prescription are among the obscurer diplomatists self than the creation of the manufactured by The Uöfgkong of the minor Powers-Bogbit German feet; it was bis hope Optical Co., successors to Clark & Bohevitsch, Brantschaminow, that he would go down, to poster-Co, maanfacturing & refracting, Kosutlachthese are the men ty as the man who had built up opticians, 53, Qee's Rond, C.
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