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THE MAN WHO IS-AND THE EMPEROR WHO WAS.

EX-KAISER'S TEN YEARS OF EXILE.

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"The man who was once Emperor

of Germany, who commanded the strongest military force any nation ever put into the field, whose actions and decisions affected every nation, in the world, celebrates his birthday in exile.

Before 1914 a great nation of sixty millions would have honour ed the day. Monarchs and rulers of the world would have tendered their congratulations."

reason.

After the ex-Kaiser's marriage to

Registered as a Nowipaper at the General·

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will be conducted as usual through, out Germany.

The ex-Kaiser's family and friends at Door will observe his seven- Hermine, she started a clever and tieth birthday with a loyalty which determined campaign for the return would permit no unsuspecting by. of the ex-Kaiser and herself to Ger stander to guess that it is the many. For many months she work exiled monarch of a lost empire ed in Germany and in Holland, and who is receiving this tribute. De- her plans were so well laid that it livery-boss will hand hundreds of seemed success wai`near.. When telegrams to the doorkeeper of the climax was near a great blow Doorn Castle, conveying congratula. fell. The German Government de- tions and assurances of devotion clared it did not want Wähelm from ex-officers, aristocrats and back in Germany. None outside Monarchist groups at home, Royal- the intimate circle knows how heavy ist. organisations will send deputa was the blow.

tions to Doom to pay homage to Conservative the former Emperor. and Nationalist German newspapers will publish glowing articles honour of Wilhelm,

that

To onlookers in Doorn it has the physchological seemed change has dated from that time, Nowadays the ex-Kaiser seems more résigned to the inevitable. and to have accepted his bitter fate.

Now the event passes almost un- noticed abroad. "Only a compara tively small circle of "Kaiser tresen in Germany cbserve the occasion. The principle event of the day will be presentation of an ornamental brick clock tower, This is the ex-Kaiser's. birthday present from his wife, Hermine, her child.titles, and signs his name with the ren; and the children of the ex Kaiser. Hermine celebrated her 41st birthday on December 17th.

Wilhelm maintains his Imperial

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"A Spestre Among Soldiers Graves But the overwhelming majority old time "LR." (Imperator Be) of Germans, and especially the and keeps a small "Coart" in the unger generation that has grown Huirup under the Republic, will pass big. square moat-circled Doorn, The "Court and erover unnoticed this occasion which, vanta on the estate total 61 persons.

Writing And Wood Outting.

doors is spent at his desk, where Much of the ex-Kaiser's time in

Erasent From " Empress."

a few years ago, would still have been the signal for tational rejoic. The tower forms a part of the

ing. If most Germans ignore the garage, and is constructed of Dutch brick surmounted by a flag-pole bearing the Imperial eagle. The

because they are actually oblivious ex-Kaiser's seventieth birthday, it is not as a deliberate alight, but structure is 30 leet in height and he carries on a large correspon-of his existence. To many of the houses a carillon of the famous dence. He is deeply engaged in elder German generation, the ex- Westminster chimes. A plaque historical research to prove that tent to which the former Emperor forms posterity that the tower was Germany is not solely guilty ofis ignored by his own country to presented by "Empress" Hermine

He reads day will seem like intolerable in- and the children on the occasion of precipitating the war. Imperial Majesty, Wilhelm II"

Naturally the ex-Kaiser's birth day present will be to surprise to The tower has been under construction several months, and he personally approved the plans.

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A Changed Mar. Ten years in exile have worked great changes in the man who was Emperor of Germany. The famous erect moustaches have disappeared. His hair is snow-white, and the beard is gray. The "War Lord" expression has given pince to a less wilful mien, but the lines of the eyes and nose seem to reveal the bitterness and disappointment the ex-Kaiser has resolutely buried in his heart.

visitors come from Germany, and frequently German patriotic socie ties send delegations.

sign that the Republic has achieved permanence, and that the Hohen- zallers regime and its recent chief Out-of-doors Waheim pursues his bare beca relegated to the Embo of hobby of wood cushing and sawing history text-books. German opinions. trees. Nearly every day Wilhelm of the ex-Kaiser range from thoes spends some time vigorously sawing of the ultra-nationalist Deutsche at logs with one of his sides, or Zeitung, which considers. Wilhelm lopping the Embs, off fallen trees II. as the living symbol of with an axe. Usually he dresses Germany's glorious past in a dark green suit, with gray woolen sweater and brown leg Kings. Thanks to constant exercise the ex-Kaiser at seventy is still vigorous and full of vitality.

to those

of the editor of the Berliner Tageblatt, who recently referred to the ex-monarch merely as "a spectre still stalks among the which soldiers' graves.”

Persons conversant with life at No Candidate For The Throne. Hain Doorn say that the ex-Kaiser

Even among Nationalist-minded seldom loses his temper these days. Germans, whose sentiment is fer Everyone avoids talking about the vently Royalist, there is no influen old armies, because whenever Wiltial group, which has made Wil helm thinks of them tears start to his eyes and he is deeply moved.

A Lonely Life.

The writer saw the ex-Kaiser arrive at Amerongen, Holland, the first fateful day of his exile in 1919. I have seen him at close quartera since then nearly every year of his

Despite the presence of his aides exile, and have marked the changes and tiny "Court" Wilhelm is in the man, Until about three nowadays probably often lonely, years ago Wilhelm's manner indic. His comparatively youthful wife ated he still cherished hopes of returning to the Fatherland.

His lace and actions showed an inner unrest and mental struggle, as though the brain were busy with ever tolling" thoughts. When he walked in the park, followed by his staff, he bore himself with the old commanding manner.

But in the last few years there has been a subtie paychological change, Wilhelm's face and man- ner has altered. It has lost the unrest, the apparent anxiety and nervousness. The lines of the face give a different expression-more peaceful, somewhat jollier, and per haps a little sadder.

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Hermine, who is nearly thirty years his junior, cannot stand the Doorn climate, and is frequently absent many weeks at a time in Germany. There can be no doubt that the long years of exile have made their mark outwardly and inwardly. At certain place in the castle grounds there is a white bust of Wilhelm

helm's return to the throne a part of its programme. The Nationalist party a strong and important poli tical factor, although desiring a restoration of the monarchy, does not put forward Wilhelm as its candidate for the crown. Indeed, strangers in Germany are surprised to find, oa closer scrutiny, that the German Royalists have no common candidate for the throne. Neither the ex-Kaiser nor the former Crown Prince are seriously considered; nor is there evidence that either is actively seeking the throne...

Lost Public Sympathy.“ The lost war, and the privation. in his full glory as War Lord. It and distress which this country en- emphasises the proud bearing and dared afterward, alienated the sym- challenging expression, Nearly

pathy of millions of Germans from very morning the ex.Kaiser passes the monarchy. The Kaiser's depar this bust on his walka The o-ture for Holland at the moment of his country's disaster in November, coker at Doorn has only to com- pare the man who is with the man 1318, is described by. Wilhem 31: who was. The difference is strik as a gesture of supreme sacrifice o ing.

behalf of the Fatherland, but most Public Indiference.

Germans 'uncharitably reel that ex-move as a precipitate fight, and

Wilhelmi Not Wanted In Germany. Berlin (UP)-While the

Something happened in the past Kaiser is indulging in his little his enemies ever denounce him as three years which seemed to alter, birthday party at Doorn business a deserter.

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