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KAISER'S FATE IN THE BALANCE.

WHAT, FAILURE. WILL MEAN FOR THE HOHENZOLLERNS.

There are already mutterings against the Kaiser (say, an American lady just roturnal from Germany). Notwith- standing all the evidence to the contrary, I believe that if Germany is badly beaten in this war it will mean the end of the Hohenzollern dynasty.

I know that is a big thing to say. You in England hardly know how big. You know, of course, that German docility under autocratic government is raarvel: lous in its meekness. You know that, anlike every other country in the world, there has never been a serious criticism of the Hohenzollern dynasty in all the hundreds of years of its history. But you do not know the general feeling of almost passionate personal attachment to the Kaiser which has prevailed not only in Prussin, but all over Germany.

There is nothing like that feeling in England, or Austria, or Italy. To an American like myself it passes undor standing. But it was there. And yet, despite it all, questionings and murmur ings are growing all over the Empire. I have heard a good deal of it lately both in Berlin and Munich. The gilt is čem- ing off the gingerbread, and no mistake. Failure to win the war will begin a move- meat which will. I firmly believe, and the reign of this degenrate and braggart

House.

BLAMING THE KAISER.

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WAR'S BALANCE SHEET.

TRUMP CARDS HELD BY GREAT BRITAIN.

AN AMERICAN OPINION.

Mr. 1. Insley-Casper, writing from New York, saya;—

the

UNSHAKEN GERMAN CON-

FIDENCE.

ONLY DEFEAT IN THE FIELD

WILL BEAT THEM.

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE, LATE DERLIN

CORRESPONDENT OF THE DAILY MAIL"]

The strong disapproval", among European Allies, especially Great Bri- formation with regard to internal de From a personage whose sources of in- tain, as well as among their friends in the United States, against any move-velopments in Germany enable him to ment which might be interpreted hearkening to Germany's openly avowed

as spruk authoritatively have received the desire for peace, might be taken, as an

fullowing-statement:-- indication that the Allies, and particu-| larly Britain, were not in a position at this time to hold strong cards in their hands if they met their enemies around the table to settle the peace negotiations,

DRAWING UP A - BALANCE SHEET,

What is the position of the Allies, and particularly of Great Britain? If peace were forced upon all the belligerents to morrow, where would England, Ger- many's chief antagonist, stand?

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year of the war with national confidence "Germany is entering upon the third in ultimate That is the cardinal foot in the situation victory still unimpaired. which people in Allied countries must take into consideration. The confidence rests upon a foundation of prodigions every means at the Government's com

bluff

engineered and supported by mand, chiefly an iron censorship, inf confidence continues. That is the main thing. There is only one way of breaking failure at Gallipoli, for which England, On the debit side there would be the

down the structure upon which the whole German military programme rests--the There would be the humiliating surrender that is military pressure. more than France, responsible people's hypnotic belief in

Whis

Evictory

Turks at Kutsel-Amara. There would be of General Townshead's army to the

Until the German armies are smashed England's diplomatic failures in the of invasion indubitably before the Ger to an extent which brings the speetre Balkans, primarily i Bulgaria. There mans eyes, their faith will not be un- Wh the intellectuals muttered, in

would be her failure to full her oftendermined. The moment it begins to sneret, upd now speak of more openly, is reiterated boast of being protector to the crumble the end for the Allies will be in. the gigante folly which risked this war small tions. Serbia, Montenegru, not sight. Extraordinarily brave as they are without making

to speak of Belgium. have yet to feel com of England's

in battle and extraordinarily united 48 neutrality first. The first sign of this fort and consolation and the return to they are in what seems to be victorious feeling way unitterable rage against them of independence and freedom at ghting, the Germans are extraordinary England that has passed in many cases the hands of Great Britain. Her towards when palpably being braten. into derision of the statesmen who work blockade of Germany, is belittled and They will, in that hour, but not antit ed for war and made war under the decried in the English press, while the collapse like a house of cards. The 9th Sanday after Trinity, 20th Augus

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, Horgkong? Fantastic impression that they had Eng- population of Germany manifests not Albey work is, therefore, clearly cut Holy Communion (7.50.) Ratios land “squared or afraid to interfere,

the slightest evidence of succumbing to

out for them. They must defeat Ger- Responses, Ferial; Venito, Te Ler; Palans, (11.7.) Store and inore the Kaiser is being held,

starvation. Germany has proved an many decisively in the field and make Hayes and Ouseley; Te Deum, Hell, Jones responsible for this calamitous blunder, agonist on the seas such as the Bri-invasion either an actual or imminent on Pyes Jabilste (3rd evening) Anthe which, the Germans now recognise, has tish wavy never expected, in reality a peril,

*Sleepe » Wake," Mendelsohn; Hymn 184. made of no avail their long, long years formidable for in a quarter where no foe

so formidable has appeared to challenge the western front are all to the good, but union; Psalm 103, verses 1, 8, 11, 19 and 2% "Such events as are now occurring on N.B-Paslm 109, verses 1, 2, 16, 21, 25 and 28 of secret and intense war preparation.

You ask me whether the people of Ger. Britain for centuries.

by concealing from the people the facts son, Evensong (5,45 p. Responses, ranny wit

about their defeat the leaders of the German Army are depriving the Allies of Magnificat, Goss (7th evening); Nune Dimittas Feriad Prelorst of the ti vening (1); the effective fruits of their victory. Farol 7th evening)1; Hymn", 170, 22 d There will naturally come a time when 16-Organ Recital tomorrow (Mos defeats will no longer be concealable. at Sie pa, in aid of the Navy League Then the moment will have arrived when

War emo.fal Faod. Allies successes in the field will produce However brilliantly the German navy

the one result which will hasten peace may have performed the task set for it,

the Germans will see that they are losing it is, nevertheless, true that Great Briand the finish will ensue speedily Panic tain still is mistress of the seven seas. She can remain so after suffering numer

unprecedented will break out.. Whether it will lead to revolution remains to be us assaults similar to those Germany has made upon her..

a way et victory. They do-i

sve given up the bope of indemnities, but they believe they can hold the Allies everywhere, and that when

peace comes it will be with an undefeat ed Germany and at least the status quo. unte bellus with regard to the distribu- tion of territory in Europe. They ridi. cule the notion that they may have to give up Alsace and Lorraine.

APPALLING RUIK AHEAD,

"

But they do not now look for any other. Aban a stammatis peace, and they know that this means antional bankruptcy, 1 have found this view sadly and widely expressed even in Prussia: in the other federated States, from what I have heard, there are the gloomiest forebod- ings of what will follow the declaration

of such a peace.

Doving

What is there on The credit side? Enough, in actuality, to make Great Bei tain almost a dictator at any peace con ference which would take place at this time.

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DIGESTION AND THE NERVES.

"If the peace conference came at this time there could be no dispute as 10 Britain's right

These judgments are founded on my upon the seus.

be considered, supreme firm conviction that neither attrition of tion of this supremacy has been the first Germany.

To command recogni

Ban-power nor lack of food will beat' The plain truth about the Wages have never been high in the Ger-

object of the envoys from Britain who food situation is that Germans, hoving man Empire: the proletariat is now wak-

have settled the peace negotiations of the in the past eaten 120 per cent. of what European wars during the past two ren- ang up to the fact that after the war, so

kamans needed, are now cuting about 80 turies. appalling will be the ruin, it will have

per cent. They are in a correspondingly to subsist or something like half wages

During the past century British diplo-state, but they are not sturving. I would grumbling mood azed inconveniencer if the wheels of industry are to be kept may, in all peace negotiations, has with not go so far as to say that they can go ving at all. For this dread prospect almost equal solicitude centered around on indefinitely on short commons, but if the Kaiser and his House are held to be Russian people expert their Government expectations they will be able to go on the disposition of Constantinople, The their present crop fairly comes up to chiefly responsible.

Just before I left Berlin as an invalid to get Constantinople and add it to the for a long time yet; certainly over an- Sometimes your watch won't keep time;

crown if the Allies are victorious other winter. Their cattle plight is prob in this war, thus attaining the goal of ably the worst feature. In respect of Bassian etatemanship since the founda- other commodities, there seems to be Great. The German people expect that in Germany that food troubles have tion of the empire under Peter the Emperor William will be so powerful at

somo justification for the popular outcry Constantinople will belong to German tion of available supplies. the capital of his ally, the Sultan, that

been due not so much to actual shortage as to inefficiently bureaucratic organisa- commerce as its own, if the Teutonic allies win the war,

I heard some strange and sinister stories. I was told, for instance, that the Kaiser has recently been making considerable foreign investments against the coming of the evil day, and in many other ways preparing for the worst,

These stories may not be true-probably are not and I take no responsibility for. then. But the significance of them is that they are now being passed from mouth to mouth everywhere.

(DOLATRY, TURNED TO CRITICISM,

siaister

It is astounding how soon, once glant our and prestige have departed from a and unworthy motives begin to be attributed to him. This is the case with the Kaiser at present. In the tremendous early period, when the aries of the Fatherland, like some vast and ineluctable engine of Fate, were pushing on to Paris with a stride, the star of the Hohenzollern never mighty daily blazed with so great a splendour.

Į was in Germany then, and the people's attitude towards their Kaiser fairly sickened me. It was nothing short of positive idolatry. All that has gone now. Had I not witnessed the chat should never have believed it possible. Nothing can restore that worship hat sequence of glorious victories which no German now believes-to be obtainable.

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The blockade is pinching Germany materials for such things ng clothing and inuen harder, I think, in regard to raw

military requirements) and ingredients boots (which are, of course, very essential for munitions. I have been reliably in- formed that the shrapnel on some fronts is by no means up to the standard used early in the war.

•

With the British lion's paws on the Constantinople and the Dardanelles are Aegean and the Ionian groups of islands, only under supervision, but Britain's Mediterranean power is reinforced as it has never been. One need not accuse the English statesmen of the jatention to bold all they have. But these posses signs can be considered legitimately as evidence of any material lock of men in "I have not been able to secure any trump cards to carry to the conference table at the peace negotiations to be used Germany. Everybody at all it has bec in skillfully playing the game of diplo-called up, or is being called up, and macy with its quil pro quo, and made to

women are doing an enormous amount of serve the British Empire.

work formerly thought it only for male hands.

war:

A tiny piece of grit can cause a lot of into your eye. mischief. You realise this when it blows Comfort enda until this more speck of dirt has been removed, goes when and how it likes. You take it delicate movements have been put out ci gear by dust you can only see under a to the mender; and he, perhaps, fuda tiệ

magnifying glass,

ladigestion acts in the same way on the body. that keep the wheels of life running Digestion, like the mainspring of s watch, is one of the principal things soothly. Let it be disturbed and evory your nerves are upset. Why? part of your system suffers.

Notably

depend upon each other very closely. he cannot become affected without the Well, the norves and digestivo systemg

our nerves cry out because they are not other becoming upset. Bad digestion as lack of nourishment from foo). show how Mother Seigel's Syrup rapidly They lose tone and energy. Let us ends matters.

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remains too long in the stomach an.1

In a state of Indigestion food often i English soldiers, although defeated in their attempt to seize Bagdad and destroy the Bagdad railway, still have obtained about the war is teriainly disheartened is frequently poor in quality, and badly "Underground sentiment in Germany (Nature's own laxative) from the laver fermenta Again, the supply of bile possession of the most valuable petroleum and sullen, but it is kept ruthlessly un-regulated. felds near the Persian Gulf, where the derground. Maximilian Harden is probgaa to expel the body's refuse impun pipelines of the Anglo-Persian Oil Comably the only man in the country who ties are then thrown into the blood. All Úr the bowels are to slag- pany were laid down shortly before the others know the truth know the utter centre

is openly telling the truth. Plenty of these important digestive organs are the This is the most valuable oil for hopelessness of the German War party's Naturally the irritated nerves protist-- But as the Kaiser-worship of the early same soldiers who guard it keep watch schemes, know the absurdity of saying like the eye does against a particle of

ritory the British Government has. The

2 special nervous systems days of the war sickened me, so the pre-also upon the Persian Gulf. The Rua-that France is already bled sent attitude his in it elements of dissians and the Germans, fighting for Meso-ready to make a separate peace,' and

white, gust. The Kaiser no more deserves the potamia, gre halted at the Persian Gulf the like but the censorship is now so body and norves can be restored to a really

and sand. storm of obloquy which seems about to

You must right your digestion before burst round him than he deserved that India.

by England, a sentinel at the gates of mercilessly wielded that there is ud Stop sound state; otherwise there is a steady earlier worship. ̈

the War or Peace element of any arti drain on your vitality. The drip of He is an ordinary man, very pompous

Great Britain in proclaming sover knows that to keep the country doocived in times.

culate importance. fbut that is only a Prussian characteris. eignty in Egypt and in Cyprus has taken and gagged has become a matter of sup

The ruling clique water from s lesking cau will empty it clever enough to pull the wool over the fully what she could hardly have done of the Socialist Liekkoecht was tre-corrective action restores good digestion advantage of war to this sapping of the system. Its topic and Mother Seigel's Byrup quickly stops eyes of certain British journalists who in peace lines without fear of war. Aus- mendons strategic error by the German by stimulating stomach, liver and bowels anoe visited him, neither an ogre nor. Hosnia and Herzegovina in 1908 can be far has struck auch a blow at the coun-

tria's proclamation of sovereignty over Government. Nothing in the war thus into healthy activity. saint. Personally, I do not believe him called the first cause of this war because try's vaunted national unity." to have been directly responsible for the

Then you derive | full nourishment from your food. Robust This was largely the fault of bist disturbed the balance of power in the statesmen, who have not

Balkans and started into motion currents

hoalth, with full nerve energy, follow," great man among them, and whose eyes, to use a

of international relationship seeking to

Mrs. T. Momberg, 53, Eight Street, homely old English phrase which I used

readjust that

Boksburg North, Transvaal, wrote on delicate

July 21st, 1914: About four months! ago. I suffered very much from Indiges The symptoms which gave me the

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German, which has fed itself to repletion on the wars of the past and looked for

more propitious moment both in Egypt ward Grey Mr. Asquith can be accord-derangement of the bowels. ward eagerly to the wars of the future.

and in Crete. The peace conference will, No, the Kaiser is probably not the chief its quid pro quo.

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cd much of the credit.

complete culprit. Yet I believe that if some insane

Appearing to realize his grave mistake in

"This caused me acute pain and with Bat the most impor- Edward Grey, before the war, to conduct my nervous system. After trying several tant point has been scored. and disillusioned German shot him desetish Prime Minister, when recently in cern, Mr. Asquith, since the war, has by a friend to use Mother Beigel'e Syrup. Bir loss of appetite had the effect of upsetting to-morrow, and the coming of peace were Rome, did not forget to secure in advance been intimately connected with every The result was almost

And the Bri- the Foreign Office as his privates con- preparations in vain, I was recommended thereby hastened, there would be rejoic from Italy her ing in the Fatherland. Sic transit, etc.

sovereignty in Egypt, a time of policy many cases taken personal charge when restored my appetite, banished the pains, to British move of the Foreign Office and has in and the use of two bottles completely immediate relief, which very likely will be followed with the situation became acute. Reviled and end. I now enjoy the best of health. Britain's other allies.

intrigued against by the men who owe always keep a bottle handy, as I find an him the first allegiance, openly belittled occasions done very beneficial.” The German colonies in Africa which newspapers. Mr. Asquith still maintains toaie,

by the majority of the powerful London Mother Seigel's Syrup is which sives very sorry to learn that Mr. and Mrs. may not, be retained. But they are addi-ed every few months by his friends and action is opent leaves you more lifelous

The Darjeeling paper says: We are have been seized by the British may, or himself. His retirement is prognosticat toate, not a mere, stimulant, which Kapp, who are interned at Katanalar, tional trump cards which the British his enemies. He stays on because, while than ever. It builds up your strength ou you false energy, and then, when its have lost their only son, who was ently statemen can carry in their pockets to the the people of Britain talk only of their firm foundation by ridding the body Day O Ailled while fighting for the British sids Peace conference. This is also true with disasters, they nevertheless realize that of the impurities created by indigestion, France, Buch is the irony of fate-regard to the German islands in the Mr. Asquith has steered the ship of State and providing increased store, of vitality the parents are prisoners as enemy sub-

Pacific over which the British Bag now jects while the son gives his life for the floats.

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