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KAISER WILLIAM UNDER THE MICROSCOPE.

ست

HIS FOREKNOWLEDGE OF THE

"LUSITANTA" CRIME.

A STORY OF PERSONAL AMBITION.

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH, 1915,

LORD HALISHURY'S 400D ADVICE.

That evening the Quera sont for Lord' Salisbury, informed him of what had occur red, and asked him to speak to the Emperor. "I am afraid," he replied, "that that

If...1. nt would only make things worse. tempted to discuss the subject with the Emperor. he might cut matters short by taking me by the shoulders and throwing me out of the window !

COTTON.

POLICY OF CONTRABAND.

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At this juncture, says the Daily Telegraphe of the 11th ult, it may be useful to note one or two points connected with the question raised by the importation of American cotton into Germany. The words of Cabinet "Besides, it might provoke him to do Ministers have naturally been restrained by

the continuance of diplomatic negotiations, Mr G. E, Anderson

Mr J. H. Baring The Public and Private Life of Kuiner exactly the contrary to that which I might but it must not be argued from their silence Mr M Apps

that the Government has been inactive. William II. By EDWARD Lean suggest. In my opinion, there is only one Your Majesty should write thing to do.

The importance of the matter has long

Mr R. E Belilios au siriograph letter to the Tsar telling him Landen: Eveleigh Nash.

what has occurred, and urging him to lose been, recognised, and earnest consideration

Mrs K. R. Beiflion Though this is one of those "made "

no time in making a friendly advance to has been given to every aspect of a difficult books which appear in world crises, it is France, in order to convince the Emperor and delicate problem, in which the interests

of the United States-and especially of the Mr C. D.J. Bell Mr G. C Boumad The impres William that Russin would not consent to see

Southern States have, of course, weighed Mr D. C. Beadal none the less entertaining. sion it leaves on one's mind is that there France wantonly attacked.

"This would cause the Emperor to reflect, heavily with is.. Matters are progressing is a strong strain of insanity in the and it would be the most effectual way of satisfactorily to on arrangement, but of this Mr & Mra 3. V. Braga who is preserving peace. It would be well if Eng-moment nothing would be more inadvisable Mr & MR. D Bonn inporial criminal

hasten or interfere with the course of our

Mr C. Champlin responsible for the great tragedy that island were also to make simultaneous ad- than that any attempt should be made to Mr F. M. I. Carter

ranees to France,'f

Mrs Choy Leung Shi Queen Victorin took her Minister's advice, diplomacy. In this matter the hands of the H. Chcethom rending Europe to-day. Notwithstanding

It should be remembered that in this, as Capt F. Commiskey the lore squandered upon him by the late She sent an antograph letter to the Tsar Government ured no strengthening, Queen Victoria, the Kaiser seems to have (Alexander III., a whole-hearted hater, of fostered a personal dislike to his Royat Germany), who fully appreciated the situa-in every other matter connected with the Mr Mrs F. E. Davis

tion. The French fleet was in Swedish war, our own action is necessarily based upon Mr W. A. Dowley cousins of England and an overweening waters, and the Tear immediately invited it conference with, and the consent of our Mise M. E. Dusty

Dupuish and family When to Cronstadt, while Queen Victoria sent Allies. It is true that, as usual, the Fleet is Mr & Mrs 31. V. desire to humiliale our country,

further restriction of the cotton that now Capt N. L. Dunsford the late Queen was informed that the invitation for the ships to risit Porte-likely to play a considerable part should any

mouth.

The spring of 1992 came-to-due-course-reaches Germany he agreed upon, but it can-Mr M. D. Kawart Kaiser (then a young Prince) had said; "I wish I had not a drop of English yet nothing happened. But from that time not be too well borne in mind that the interor Fusitisms onwards the Teutons military and naval este of the Allies are one; and that any Mr C. D. Foa er blood in ins vejng," she would not preparations for future conflicts were con- policy to be adopted by us raust receive the believe it; but it is a wish which must timous and vigorous, with the result that, full consideration and acquiescence of the

within the past ten years, Germany thrice other members of the Entente find an echo in mary an English hourt af brought Europe to the brink of war the present time.

PAUL KRUGER'S CUTTING BETONT.

French and child Laps & Mist. M. Mr & MnC.B. Farnell Lieut-Condr. & Mrs V. N. Gascoine.

There is a good deal in this volume! The episode of the Kruger Lelegram alsncontraband of war can by itself decide the Mr J. M. Goceno

about the abominations and immoral which have distinguished many of the associates of the Kaiser, and even a hit --DOW to us of an imperial liaison There is no evidoner, however, it ought to be added, that the Kaiser colound the Eulenberg eccentricities or that he was ever winithful to the Empress. On the contrary, wintover orimes he has been guilty of during the past year, j" cannot be said that the Kaiser, so far as the available evidence goes, is other than a Vanity is good husband and father.

Maximilian finds a place in this book. IIarden is quoted for the account of how the Kaiser cams to the house of the Chan- cellor with a military suite and demanded that something should be done at ance for the Boers.

There was disputation over the terms of the messige, & presago in which, it was suggested by one counsellor mean that Germany was being led against England.

"How could you have passed this sentence?" he asker.

"You would understand it if you knew what was planned," replied the German Foreign Secretary,

to Chamberlain.

Almost as necessary is it to remeber that no mere declaration of cotton as absolute issue. Such a declaration must, to be Mr & Mrs J, Gould effective, be supported by arrangement with Mr V. Gouldbonra such neutral countries as are in touch with Mr G. Goodrich our enemy's frontiers. Various schemes Mr & Mrs B. C. Haile with varying success-have been put forward tapt T. P. Hall to secure the co-operation of neutrals with Me & Mrs W. material immediately required for our ourselves in the legitimate attempt to cut off enemy's ammunition; and the public may rest assured that demonstrations and meet ings called to give expression to opinion on the subject are more harmful than helpful,

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Bat at the same time the delay in coming has enabled the countries on both sides of to a decision has had its valuable side, as it In the midst of his troubles, it is related the Atlantic to realise the needs of others by another writer, Kruger was encouraged and there will be not merely satisfaction, but probably the great motive of thi, Kaiser's by a sympathetic German, not to give way' relief, if an agreement can be reached which Mr & Mrs Callender Mr D. Lainbden

"Don't be afraid of Eng- does not press unduly upon any neatral land," the sympathiser urged; our Kaiser State. To what extent such an agreement will stand by you, whatever happens." may involve a certain reciprocity in surren. "Your Emperor!" exclaimed the old Border it is not necessary to discuss here.

will -not Ministry of the present Don't talk to me of your Emperor. On it should not be doubted that the policy relieve natural anxiety on this a certain day your Emperor despatched n telegram to me. All the warld knows about only but will leave the other delicata Miss Cookson St. But old Victoria just spit, and where pourparlers between ourselves and the White was your Emperor then?"

House unhampered by even a touch of disappointment at our action in this matter. KAIMER'S FORES NOWLEDGE OF LUBETANIA "

We shall lay no hard bargain before the CRIME.

United States for their acceptance j.. other hand, we shall not jeopardise the interests of the Allied Powers. Coalition only another re-spelling of confidence, and longer to extend their confidence to the that the public will continue for a little Government in this question, as in others, there is no reason whatever to doubt.

whole career. It reached its culmination when he conceived the ide of world power-the rook on which greater men than Kaiser William have been wrecked. KAISER AB DIGNEY-ÚKABBER. Mr. Legge quotes the statement of the Financial Fees that the Kaiser has large investments in British Columbia and the Western States of America, and

says:-:

"A dead failure in the domains of the arts and politics, the Kaiser next unexpectedly turned his attention to a very different field of enterprise, finance, No Sovereign-not even the late King of The Belgians-ever looked sharper after his money bags than William II. In this mspect te resetables all the grasping This hereditary trait Hohenzollerns. explains his great friendliness to untitled, but clever, Anangiers, such as the now notorious Herr Ballin and the banker Hol ferich. Under their direction the Kaiser made such highly successful specs that at the time the war began in August, 1914, his personal fortune exeocded 180,000,000 marks, or £8,000,000 sterling!"

some

As evidence of the Kaiser's complicity in the Lusitania crime, Mr. Logge relates the experience of an American, well-known to the the work of suceuring prisoners, and wrote Emperor. This American was interested in to the Kaiser, telling him that his son would that he would not he interfered with. be passing through Germany and hoping

Ballin

on the

is

By return of post," Mr. Legge, camo a letter from the Kaiser in his own peculiar handwriting, imploring his friend not to allow his son to take his passage to MODERN ROBINSON CRUSOE. England on board the Lusitanic. and Berustorff may have suggested the com- mission of the crime, but we have here the Kaiser's own written admission that he knew all about it and sanctioned it.

It has not passed unnoticed that in the ing has been put upon Bavarian, Saxon In this present war the brunt of the heavy fight. or other than Prussian troops.

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A remarkable account of a modern Robin- son Crusoe is given in a letter from a mid-

Mr & Mr. Crepajotines

F. W. Cary assisted in rounding up the Königsberg. The Again, he writes: When, as

stories from Mr. Legge's volume: --

mra mn C. D'Jamili "At Kiel, in the early part of 1914, some letter, published in the Calestia Staleman, We had to go to Aldabra Island, which is closely, we discover that there remains very little of that intellectual Kultur Bavarian naval recruits were being sworn is quoted by the Morning Post correspondent r & Mrs A. Cousind Miss Res which his subjects so much admire in him, in. The Kaiser asked one of them

The French, writer). We arrived at dawn one day, and s Wo feel that he possesses mechanism and are the onemies from without that you have about 400 miles east of Zanzibar (says the Cul Darling K.. artifion rather than method and judgment, sworn to fight if necessary?

And who are landing party was sent ashore to find out hir a mus Dobis In that brain crammed with mychanical Majesty iras the reply.

Capt & Mrs Hammond

and child owladge mechanically absorbed there is the enemies from within that you will what they could. While we were doing this. A Havernd.

ALF & Mis no room for a superior creative imagina fight? asked the Emperor, expecting that the old was going to steam round the Mr & Mrs B. A. Asla tion or a sure, impartial, and measured the recruit would answer, The Socialists. island, a distance of about sixty miles, to see

Hansen "Well, away we went, all merry and bright. Hence his powers nees to But, to the intense amusement of everybody if the enemy was on the other side. judgment orvate, his craze for the new, cpecially excepting the Kaiser, the simple-minded

Honce Bo his Bararinn said, The Prussians, Majesty!' and when we got within about 400 yards of in political affairs.

Ar E. Kadoozie diplomatig clumsiness, precisely because He remembered how they had shot down his the beach a boat put off with a white man the art of pourparlers escapes from the countrymen in the war with Austria inin it. He turned out to be a Frenchman, the rs T. J. B. Johns

"When he came close to us he asked us mechanism and constantly necessitates the 1868.

"In the war with Franco in 1870, the only white men on the island. esprit of a-propos."

Bovarious were invariably placed in the what we wanted, and we said we were going Dr & Mrs Lesvall most exposed positions during the fighting to land, so he showed us the way through their Lembelet Although a professed friend of peace, Mr. Legge was a war correspondent with reefs. When we got ashore, he very hospitar & is Moss and

gone

to his shanty and had a cup of coffee. the Kaiser's whole policy has been one the German forces in 18701, and consequent-ably refused to do any business till we had

He might have thoughtly their lossee far exceeded those of the Pras of aggression.

were delighted. he was peaceful because there was nosians, who rejoice in having the Emperor and I, not having had any breakfast, likelihood of a clash of arms so long as for their own particular King." other Powers were willing to stand out army commanded by the then Crown Prince, of his way and allow him to dictate their aftorwards for ninety-nine days Emperor restrictions, in high politics. in com Frederick, many Bavarians served, and one day some of them greatly surprised and mroe, in political friendships.

In 1891, as Mr. Legge reminds us, the amused Unser Fritz by saying to him in chorus, It's a pity you did not lead European horizon was clear of all clouds, and Caprivi (Chancellor) and Boetticher us in 1866, for then we might have beaten (Prussian Minister of State for the those damned Prussians!! Interior) had both declared that at no time had peace been so surely guaranteed as at present." The user was at the time visiting Queen Victoria at Osborne, when, according to Mr. Legge, he asked, her Majesty to give him a private and

a matter of the greatest import ance." At that audience, the Kaiser is asserted to have said:-

ense on

stronger.

In the

NATURALISATION IN THE

COMMONWEALTH.

It is the intention of the Australian Government to introduce a Bill this session which shall amend the law relat

ehijd

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When we arrived at the house, a gigantic

Mr E da 8. Andrade Mr J. Bein black man handed us each a green cocuanut in the husk, with a hole out in the end, full Mr J. C. Anker of delicious cocoanut milk....

A. B. V Mr C. Craden Mr A. von Dyke

NO TOBACCO,

"The Frenchman (who spoke good English) had run out of tobacco, and when we offered him a cigarette ho nearly wept with joy. He . P. S. vas byk lives an absolutely. Robinson Crusoo ex-Mr A. C. Haig istence. He didn't even know that Turkey My K. B. Hause!

Mr .. amne was at war, and the last news be hnd was that the Formidable was sunk. The only Mr H, Hunt papers he had were two magazines of 1913 Mr B. James and one of 1911. He informed us that be Mr E, Jones had read these over and over again until he Mr W. Jonson almost knew them by heart

"When we offered to send him off papers, Mr G. von Jasur

We went all over the Mr. LowLen how to thank us. tobacco, etc., from the ship, he did not know Mr W. H. Lackey

I have something on my mind, grand- mother, and word your advice. The situn tion in Germany is intolerable, and cannot ing to naturalisation. The main objectsland (or rather the inhabited part of it) and lash. The country cannot hear for another year the present financial strain necessary of the measure will be to bring the Com-saw everything. There are flamingoes, ibis, to maintain our fighting strength. Social-monwealth legislation on the subject into frigate birds, and I don't know how many

into operation at the beginning of the a 700.

The business is chiefly turtle catching. ism is assuming more terrible proportions line with the English Aet which came more varieties, which you usually see only in daily. Germany's Allies, particularly Italy,

The your. It is understood that the Governor- cannot keep up the present pace. strain upon them is too great. France, on Genora will be empowered to grant a He took us to see the enclosure in which be the contrary, is becoming stronger and certificate of aaturalisation to any alien keeps the turtles which he is going to sond It is who can proro either that he has resided away alive. There were about sixty of the But Franco is isolated.

for a period of not less than five years, It appears that they catch on an average absolutely necessary that Germany should in any one of. His Majesty's Douninions largest turtles I have ever seen in my life. Fotze the first occasion to declare war upon France. The latest moment to which this or that he has been in the servies of the sixty turtles a night in the senson Most of Crown for not less than five years within these, of course, they kill, but they keep the last eight years before the applica some alive to send to Europe, where they can possibly be put off is the spring of

TURTLE AS A PRESENT. 1892.

Queen Victoria did not give her bellicosetion. Also, he must be of good charactor, fetch as much as £120 each.

As long have an adequate knowledge of the Eng

"After being on the island about four: grandson much encouragement. as I live, she declared, "I firmly hope lish language, and be prepared, if his I am now old application be granted, either to reside peace will be maintained. but my last years shall not be saddened by in ons of His Majesty's Dominions or to hours our ship appeared, so we had to put more blood flowing in Europe. The responenter, or continue in, the service of the off. On leaving he made us a present of a

a terrible Crowa, sibility that rests upon you is one. It would be criminal for any Sowtoign or statesman to attempt to pre cipitate events. In any case, what you have said caused me the greatest nensi

ness."

One of the features of the Bill live turtle which had just been caught will be that naturalisation in the Com- weighing about 350lb. Some turtle Of monwealth will cover naturalisation in course, we thanked him, and when we reached

last him for six mouths." Great Britain and those Dominions which the ship we sent him some bisetits, milk decide to bring their legisation into line tobacco, etc, and enough reading matter to with the Imperial Act.

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