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THE FALLEN KAISER. A BIOGRAPHY.

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Colonial enterprise the Ruiser for a lung time regarded as dangerous. But a few years later he abandoned this view,

dissatisfaction and criticism.

THE HONGKONG - DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21ST. 1919.

Then fol

lowed the unspeakable seandal of the Eulenburg connection

A'most simultaneously with this his. toric interview the

brought Kaiser Europe to the brink of war. On October 7th Austria-Hungary violated the Treaty

to be

dishonour of Austria and Bulgaria in Wilhelm cordially distiked-had Herbia: the use of poisoned wells and admitted to full military authority, with poisoned gan and never a word of pro- Ludendorfi us A coadjutor. These two from quarrelled frequently, but they presented bibition, apology, or regret enme the one man who could have stayed the united front against their Sovereign, whole black business from the start by a whom at the front they used only ne n In their place, bonours useful commie-voyageur of patriotism,; stroke of his pen. whited the theory that none but oecanic Berlin by an edict annexing the Tar were showered upon those responsible for and in the rear as a sort of strike-brenker. Even The disaster of the Year, the triple failure or world Powers can hope to survive in kish provinces of Bosnia and Herzego these offencer against humanity.

This action on the part of the the awful phrase of his agent, Count at Ypres, the awful blunder of Verdun, the etruggle for national existence, and exerted himself to the utmost in quality Din) Monarchy excited profound lier.urios versenkt," drew from the retreat in the spring of 1917, und, to him no word of reprimand. Naked and crown all, the long triumph of the armies hia country for the keen competition, sotusfaction in England, und, of course unveiled we see him and his responsibility funder Foel, were painfully explained,

for the treachery and the disciplined Away by the military reports; but at last bestiality of the tiernans, and we enn the hour came when the deccption could form a sure state of the soul that lived no longer gall the starved and decimated in Wilhelm }}.

people of Germany, who, against all proof to the contrary, had long tried to retain their belief in Wilhelm as a great mil- Lary commander.

Imperialism thereupon became the new watchword, and the idea ste spread that Britain was the one and only obstacle in the way of German expansion, and thus began the feeling that England was the gualer of Germany In tus manner the policy of the High Sens Fleet was origi rated. Leagues and societies were found ud. Men whom trade har eariched, and

lose chiel nunbition web

vinu.

Prance and Russia

The Kaiser com-

picted the affront by a speech he made at Vienas in 1909, in which he described an ally taking his stand himmelf

whining armour" by the side of the Austrian Emperor.

Passing over such incidents in Willelmu 11's life as tris vainglorious tour in Palestine in 1808, the consequent Bagh thecoration, dad Railway policy, and his two fuscos abric, an approving smile from Din Morocco which erased much lifter Brad of the State, contributed largely criticism among his subjects. From their superfluat? Boys and girls the Great War. at school gave their mater

The Kaiser,

THE GREAT WAR.

come to

HIS PART IN THE WAR.

We have seen that the Emperor regard ed a successful war. not only as the quickest road to world-dominion, but as the only means of averting a surrender

It was soon Heen that he was but a figure-bead. All real control had passeải qut of his herein, Frankenstein had made

of his cast authority to the growing power his monster and could only wateb

of Socialism). He had ne more time to

its

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natios with impotení misgiving. José. If he was to live to see his ambi-Kaber was compelled to listen ** the

ons crowned with success, he must strike

insistent elatrar of the war party that sama, for though at 35 he was muscular

nothing was worth consideratiom except and took more exercise than most kien of

the winning of the war, and that after.

5, hir war trouble gave him no respite,

me, or intrigo could be dealt with ensily. and his nerves had long begun to breakerds any other trouble -Bucialist, econe,

Prince Henry of Prussia, it was in the down under the strain. Aul, on the other The civilian elique riposted: Well, win

in one of his frequent telegraphic mes The key in the German Emperor's re

Je to be found siges of encouragemem to his friends.sponsibility for the war włote Stil keep puding forwards

in the frank admission made in The tl the work began is mangleted; then we shall emoaned peney on the His words were construed by his friend and ins crmpies alike as the expression of

world

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scasion of the avenging by Germany of the death of twe German missionaries in

hun, and the conserpent nubexation

bis mantan to inquite the arbiter of the the harbor of Line obie H. 1 sandrath was feared in all the Chancelleries

The imagination of the Cortalissors sermonely to an klaglishman who was wn wight The bid Cann was CODE present, My brother regards a victorious

The Nusy Ba was jusserf

war as the ly possible chance of crush- The Sirent War begona, Intianly speak

seg Sccalism in Germany, and to pro pertants of the easy future

wave his throne he will therefore make

Stru

IMPERIAL BLINDERS

the sender by jettisoning now from this site and now from that the best brains policy he had no shred.

in his service. But of a clear and frin

hand, the Socialist movement was benvn-

the win If you do not do that on We ing a giant and knew its own strength. cannot be held responsible for the wave So he prepared for what he regarded as of Serialism that even now threaten to of the inevitabile day In July, 1984, the ep your militarison away.

the (wo the Emperor attempted of the world. Framer and Russin, daugh hopelessly behindhand, Apested up their military preparations, uid Great Britain saw to it that her Fleet was great enough and good enough to cope with this veled threat from across the North Sea.

Now came in the personal factor, and here Wilhelm II. was equal to his ambitions. His uxoidance of any irrevan ablo act of war had twice already been criticised by his own people, who could not understand his repeated shrinking from the results of his own actions. This where anger now almost crystallised in la h Haghdad railway seline; bon vapid and timid Crown Prince. It mince result, headed by the rating as philandering with Islam; his voice was

a perilous position, though the ni uhcials; dos rejection of Bismarck's Emperor had invited it by his own vacille titebang policy grave with Russia; bistion, and the relations between father UN PEUPEN Ameen, and spores of and son were beser of even a friendly outfaced. The world wide new rath

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While the Kaiser this saw his authority threatened from within. he could searcļ solace himself by saying that he could see in the world without. Th Kreat Asiatic scheme that crystallised and the Baghdad Railway was soon

พบ be hopeless, and bug before the fall of Baghdad the Kaist was trening his eyes The loss of her colonus did Doi really affect Germany greatly, thengla a stage effect of the ex Kaiser's reign was utterly spoiled by their surrender But there was another and more serious treable. The hatred which tiermany had enrned in old days could be dead with

The mass in

ing was another matter.

To use who have atashad with atte tion the citaractes of Wilhem 1 11 seems certain the even his habitual Th discretion would not haver allowed hirap enumit The Batorical blunders of which be was guilty bad he had the cations sense to foresee the inexhalde, crustade tion that would be put upon his words When he declares that Gerous & future smaller wage der Wins Scarvely Jess openly mature from that time onward, Wilhelm the countries of ins enemies were no longer พเมริ

fe upon the water, that the paying the way fur the catastrophe that knew his own nudequacy, and his moral dumb or powerless, and the ingenuity of But as delight in even a Kuhlman failed for the task. ident should be in our hand,

as palloried him as the last and feast courage failed him. bidding farewell to the Tser, signalled worthy of the big and futile column of theatral arroganes druve him relentless. of influencing enemy trade unions and He made on the path that he knew mustad labour gutters governed with a dis the greetings of the Admural of the

aspirants to world-dominion, Atlantic

to war and his mental equipment was elite that lindenburg night envy, Adural of these this intention. He once que incapable of telling him that be arust All thes to the

WAN possible Pacific, he was stupal cough not to bered balf a dozen of these ambitious ones,

attempt soon choose between an outbreak that he through German labour associations in to shod stent he put his chief enemy and then cried

They fail proudly

suddenly feared, or some restraint in his

The only results were on las guard.

frank Onty dins can

Wyben Isial succeed

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is added posturings. He was Lou weak. He bated that German overtures were floated abroad. exposure of his aspiration to for that the last nang วัน cite 11 Laat self restraint, and when the tine came at may flet as powerful on the world'scension was that of Napoleon, even the which was inpossible for him to hold and that at home Labour was able to Big lur army was on the Continent

realise the opinion he his military tyrants back any longer from an oficial possion which it had of Europe be accounted for. This essen-

taking the course rendered necessary by own greatness. entertained of his tial stupidity of the Emperor in all ex

short, he made this Welt-macht the aim is actions, he signed the ultitaruin to cept superficial things must la constantly of his existence, and soner or later the

Russia with a white face, and threw the per across the table to Von Moltke with berne in mind.

war of all wars was inevitable.

the words. You will see that you wil live to regret this. Wilhelm was JO Napideon.

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Jabuary 2nd, 1800, and then wank in discretion of the station made hi de Karser an the interview published by the Telegraph on thor 28th, 190S. It will be sufficient to reend! the amazin

estion with which he is the latter

munication: Just at the time of ye

Black Week in the December of 1580, when disaster folk.wed

I tie another in rapid succesiuni | merived a letter from Queen Victoria, my revered grandmother, written

and affliction, and bearing mami Fest traces of the anxieties, which were preying on her mind and hendth

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The Kaiser with never the first to see

these things. The folly of German diplomacy and foreign policy was promise by statesmen like Lichnowsky. ginnt

like Muhlon,

merchant manufacturers

like like Ballin publicists princes Harden. Even the Mustering seNITALI Tirpite grudgingly aid "that fier many had sit maited be! the doors of every marks in which she hid before

assed huge and proedip interests. Ther things trickled down, and all ther may began to realise that she was out off from her edo prosperity, and und

inted, time went un She could preure victory

late and unvinolinopal

malice

On this shiftine foundation of domestie. foreign leg. and civil and riitary jealots, the Kaiser's thron rocked and totted.

Except for the spacetes that were pineed.

in his mouth, and the legrans that a5 und he uned an equally conventional style, Wilhelm 11's personality, save as a figure.

The

It was in 1983 that the German Em jilor cornfilted himself to the Great War In that year the army was increas d. ad Kog Alters of Belgium wa

was now cost. and Wilhelm Es baily warned by Wilhelm and Von Watched with dismay the refusal of Italy

to je her colleagues of the Triple All Monk that war with Praner was nees

an, the instant adhesion of England Both to the written Treaty by which he aj fevitable. Chn March 19th, 1943, getara! memorandum on the military

was bound to defend Belgium and the situation was isenet from Berlin.

musikken Part between herself and curs the pregnant sentence that means France I saw with uzazement our it became a bip must in oaken in make the Gerning people Overseas Dominions rise as the man to egard wer ne a positive relief from the the help of the Mother Country, and the new burden of preparation for it. The solemnly prozed insurrections in Ire Kaing, addressing song representatives ind. Fodin, and Egypt resulted in not the Swiss Army, told them that be an evening's rioting. He watched wired he had as sing a defence on his is Bert, and found it immobilised within This its own ducks. Nothing was left of all rightangas ir hnd on bis left. once returned a sympathetic reply Nay.

Say ition occurs also in the memorandum, the advantages he pictured, except bis I did more, 1 bade one of my officers pre which practically lass down the exact marvelously organised army.

me as exact an aerount as bec

actually sized the fail the advantage that his attack which uld obtain of the number of combatants

of preparation offered. head, was largely non-existent after the But therenties"

He meant to sweep through Belgium, leav frst six months of the war. Sometimes 1 South Africa of both sides, nud of the adopted in the following year.

Au more than these preparations,

ing behind lam a track of terrifying be was greeted with ordered applause With gure before overt attack upon Serbia was arranged, desolation, and after reaching Paris to be the inperially be fagged motor-Gar Betual position of the opposing forces

and the Kaiver demanded, in the

hold the capital to a hidrous ransom. awung punctually to its place of parade I considered to by the best plan of same of the Triple Alliance, the help Arrondissement after arrondissement was behind the linee; suefiers. us at the to be systematically burnt und levelled to Essen works, he was hissed. He made campaign under the circumstances, and submitted it to my General Staff for of Italy against Russia's ward and kins

the ground until the French surrendered few public appearances in Berlin. woman Italy refused, but the prepara their criticism. Then I despatched it to

Secret on, tion for WILD Rent

unconditionally and he was free to turn Crown Prince also avoided the capital, England, and that document likewis is

banks and his armies east to deal with the Russian where he had cu more than one occasion structions were issued to uning the State papers at

Windsor officials abroad, the huge organisation for menace. He took into his calculation and met with a hostile reption. Wilhelm's Castle, awaiting the serenely impartial mobiliantion was overhauled and made distuissed as worthless the contemptible relations with his eldest son were noteris perfect in the spring of 1914 warnings little Army-six divisions which was all only had and it cannot have consoled Inter o be in readiness were issued to indivi- that England could send across the Chan him that his generals, who had egged on It is.tel at a fortnight's notice to help the the heir to the throne before the war, now ew" was profound and world-wide; in duals, and many recalled home. Germany it caused an outburst of criti therefore, clear that long before the mur French on land. Six divisione only, but supported the Emperor in his view that incompetent cism of the Kaiser'e action. All partiesders of Sarajevo the war-to use a Ger. six other such divisions did not exist in the Crown Prince was an

What rankled even more war and all sections of society, without exeep man phrase that has no common counter the world. and, small as it was, in the soldier. tion, united in expressing the wish that part in English-was willed by the grasp of French it constituted such a that the Prince had obtained almost uni- henceforth the Emperor should impose a Kaiser. He had made up his mind, and weapon as not another general hnd to his versally the reputation of being a thief, Italy's refusal to join with Germany and hand. We know the story of the German For long time the old programine of greater reserve upon himself, and re frain from taking in foreign lities in Austin only set him looking about for Emperors impatience to ride through the chasing up and down the German es The assassination of the streets of Paris, and of his stupefaction and from east to west and went to enat independent action of which the Foreigner excuse.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife when Manoury and French curled round gave him at least the restless preocc Office had no cognisance.

at Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914, by two him right dank and the battle of the Lion that had become his only splice. But amatter was discussed in the Reichstag Austrian subjects, gave the Emperor his Murne ended in a race to the waters of for Wilhelm there was a innger the

the Emperor's hunge As Liebknecht stated only in the Channel. So attenuated were nat voice was raised

the warmth and blaze of the world-life. He defence, and the Chancellor. Prince von the Reichstag, the murder was regarded British and Belgian forces that Wilhelm had challenged every country, except Bulow, expressed the conviction that the by him as a gift from God."

confidently ordered an attack upon the Austrin, which he despised--he refused Nor was this

At the supreme extreme north near Dixmade, and was oven to attend the funeral of the old Em- recognition that theblication of these

the FacadetH of hiperor, though he was in Vienna on the remarks has not bad in England the effect moment when he suspected the willing present to witness

The Belgians cut their dykes, day before, Bulgaria, from which he desired by his Majesty, and has causedness of Austria to arbitrate. Germany legions.

and grass regret in this threw off the sunsk and declared war ou and the attempt to break through to the shrank as thing unclean, nad Turkey, excitement

twelve-bour ultimatum, Channel porte merely resulted in n huge which from being a footstool had become country, will induce his Majesty the si

At the same loss of men and guns, even delivered on July 31st.

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soon as stocks about li feet. He was in the Emperor in the future le maintain, mount the ex Kaiser cabled to the King noticed among his armies that the presence deplorable position of being complied

conversation, that

reserve which

of England: In this solemn hour I wish of the Emperor was an unvarying signal to not on a stage without an auditorium. antir in the interesta of n con

bloody defent, and AURIPP you once more that I have done for

thene un At one time he played a shallow game sistent policy and for the nuthority of the all in my power to avert war.".

reasonable grounds his military capacity with his brother-in-law, the King of the If that were not added the

Four days later the great. war had was

"Baugh estimated by Hellenes. It ended in the deposition of broken ont, and the advaner of the Ger thein. By the Imperial Staff bis presence the King and the cutry of Greenu into man through Belgiom and begun. Fran was regretted because of his inability to the Allied fold. Everything to which he It was the greatest blow of military point of view, it was carried strain himself from perpetual inter put his hand wilted. Against and be his life until the present extinction of his out with a detailed forethought that the ferrer. At one time this was so intoler-gend his buper Russin next fell to pinger. enemies of Germany could recognise und nhle a maisance that was netunlly From one point of view it seemned a pince Daily Telegraph intervies was not even admire. From a hunna point of stipulated by Hindenburg that the Kaiser of good fortune. Not as to the Kaiser. Proximus ardet Uulegon. He hourd in the only Imperial indiscretion of that view and it is from this standpoint that should absent himself.

these abdications and nasassinations of On February 14th the Wilhelm's responsibility is to be reckoned year. Prent ful

kings a note of personal danger which the Emperor William addressed a notorious it was a different achievement.

But in naher field Jily nuthority could timid scurrying to and fru of Ferdinand letter to the late Lord Tweedmouth, with ceived in rank trenchery to a race that

FT the object of convincing him that the Germany was worn to protect, it was not so easily be disposed of, as there was of Bulgarin did not help to full.

achieved in a wealth of dishonour, masa suntinual strife between his military found no comfort for his trouble. Even "German Naval Bill was not

ere, cruelty, and filth that stood for some and civilian advisers, and the Kaiser's his follow-actors looked sakanee, at kim, Tonge British supremney RL સી. Limean the rowning infany in the somewhat shallow dexterity was for many and when the sudden catastrophe enzné Many other troubles came thick and fant record of modern military history. That months equal pitting those against the Reichstag spoke with a voir that no won the Emperor. The Memoire of it was not to stand along. Little by little those and controlling the reault of the militariam mold withstand-and Wilhelm Prince Hobralohe-oue of the most there stole up to take their pinces in the many heated arguments at headquarters. 11, the curse of the human ron swan tounding indiscretions of official history-world's pillory much ather strociting as the Thus after the defeat of the frat Battle blotted out of the history of the world. hetreved the egotistien tally that in sinking of the Lusitania, of the Sussex, of Yoron he disianed Moltke. After the Daily Telegraph. duced Wilhelm to distinn Bismarck. and of many hospital shijin; the slaughter terrible failure of the Crown Prince

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