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THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.

WHERE IS THE KAISER NOW ?

EXTRA

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1915.

on to the Carpathians. About test for racial supremacy on the PEACEFUL PENETRATION. Novemberof last year the Germans part of an entire nation, man, the

were in a pessimistic mood. Their grand offensive had failed with the Crown Prince; at JAN IMPERIAL DYNASTY WHICH HAS STAKED ITS neither end had they struck mortal blows; their commerce had the whole life had to be reorganised, reconstituted; it looked as wet and gloomy as the weather.

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(The following article was written by Mr. Austin Harri- son for the Sunday Ohronicle,) When war broke out, the Orown Prince was the darling of the German Ármy.

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timid

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which three years ago would have been pasished for lere-majeste.

Interpreter of the Army's Spirit.

gone;

Kaiser, has no personal identity; he is merely the embodiment of

PEACE.

the uniform, the flag. When the HOW THE GERMANS BETRAY German Armies are victorious he THOSE COUNTRIES IN WAR appears, shows himself, his uni- WHICH THEY

ENTER IN form, his medals and ribbons, and disappears to await the next armorial cocasion. He is Kaizer because of the Army, and for no other reach. So long se the Army wins, his Crown is safe, The moment it begins to lose the Crown will begin to topple from his head.

saye, "And assistance of the Spanish Ministers and of the Prince and Prelates of the Roman religion (the meat part whereof were at the devotion of the House of Anstrich)," they obtained deoras for the expulsion of English trade from the German Empire. Bat it did not suffice. Was, then, the last of the Hamburg pro- gramme carried out?

I return 10 Sartorius in 1587,

business! was rapidly winning the Army to

him. Had the Kaiser uttered the This was easier than he had words which, any time in the last hoped for. The Kaiser was not week of last July, would have as so young as he was when he spake sured peace he would have lost of himself se Admiral of the his hold in Germany, and the West"; he had learnt wisdom, he Crown Prince would have force felt his responsibilities, whereas his hand.

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Tone of History's Landmarks,

Only an Emblem Now, But always it is an emblem of a Kaiser who is reported present, figure-head symbolio of the cause the strong personal note has gone, the "I" of Kaiserhood

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to

The Favoured German.

"potifying that the King had taken under his protection Hildebrand SudorMan, who had boon charged with prcouring the death of Riobard Cart:ys,

■ Hristol merchant.... and of insulting the English nation, and commanding proclamation to be made against inflicting any injury upon the said. Hildebrand or other members of the German Hanse,

We are not told II' Suderman was a Privy Councillor or a Mem ber of Parliament, but at least be was above the law

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The Prussian in Russia. I should not have carried you so far on.■ mere antiquarisu ex-

The Press never mentioned the

Mr. returns to his study of In the National Review for July, Kaiser. He stolo into Berlin so

the Colvin, in magic and dies the year before the Armads. Our orally, "anreceived." He litted

covers, as I anticipated, that the merchant adventurere had gone away from the Castle again in a

Germans were up to the neck in to the down-at-heel German town day or so unknown to the outside

the Spanish Armade. They sup of Stade, Hamburg refusing them public. Evidently he was not In reality, the Kaiser is a weak plied Philip with ships, men, entrance, Therespon Hamburg One more point and I am dons As the panache of the Crown commanding, he was not in effect man, like all men inordinately munitions, and money, and they sent a deputation to Stade with with this old history. When I In sa incautions moment his Prince grew, war became sensibly General-in-Chief.

vain. Had he not been so weak, offered him the use of the harbour threat which Sartorius thus sam wrote on the subject last I said father alluded to him once as

nearer; the Crown Prince was Gradually the Germans ceased he would never have been rushed of Hamburg. Although Philip marises; "What danger did Stade that" in 1408 England made invincible son," and the words right about the Army; it did to think of "Unser Kaiser" in into war last August. Since then was never atually. Emperor of incur ? Spain is with the Em- most ignominious peace with stack. The Prince's easy rollick want war, it was growing tired of the strife of war, the angust per- his intrinsic weakness has been Germany-as by some trick of a peror, the Empire, and the Hanse; Prussia." ing manner, his escapades, eland- the Emperor's policy of commer-sonality waned into the back- more and more apparent. Be treacherous memory I allowed the presence of the English is not thereupon wrote that at that Ons of my readerá estine and barefaced, his affairse al penetration; it did desire to ground of things, and there beyond granting Iron Crosses and myself to suggest the Empire convenient for Germany. What date there was no independent (the Crown Prince is a champion show the world what Krapps and remains to-day, no longer the all congratulating admirals and spooner), his bravoura (as when Germany could do on the field of energetic, all-deciding Kaiser of Zeppelin makers, he has been casion he acted as Emperor. Thusiast now equipping, the like of kingdom of Prussia came into was a family affair, and on co- an armada the King of Spain is State bearing the name, The he rode his horse up the staircase battle.

"My Potsdam Grenadiere," bat singularly silent all these months. Philip forbade the Imperial mer which no body has seen before; the existence in 1701. But I did leading to Wilhelm's Palace at The Emperor know that, and an emblem, almost a myth, like The most verbose and high falat chants to trade with England, Duke of Parma might possibly, not say that in 1408 Prussia was Potsdam-these were feathers in feared his son in consequence. an old flag of war emerging only in Monarch in Europe has passed when car merchant adventurore all of a sudden, appear from the a kingdom; as a matter of fact his cap; and when some years Without all question he was on State Occasions when there is from the notice of men.

driven to war last Aagast under banting in the streets and some

Sta is the treaty was negotiated by the "Papa" confined him to gar-

went to Emden, thereby usurping Netherlands: Surely Where he is, nobody knows, as John Wheeler is careful to ought to have considered the Master General of Prussia rison duty at Dantzig the young the spar of Young Hopeful, who shouting to be done.

not even in Germany. What be

matter well before being so raah (Hakluyt Vol. ii. p. 98). The man openly turned to publio sup

now thore. At some recaptured "aader," so to speak, like his dominant partner in the House of point out the Imperial powera. Now he (the old flag) is here, does, no one osn

аву. Не де

Philip was in fact, the pre-as to put a grain of sali isto the Teutonio order of knights was a Prussian military organisation Galician town, at Przemagt, or in eon, like the whole Hohenzollera Hapsburg at that time, and could

which worked hand in glove with the North in his favourite East family; Prussian baaling grounde, he op go up again anless the Fermen his liking. But as be abisined that the German cities bad, in days. In 1998 the Prussiang nor will he or they ever influenes the policy of the Empire We may take it then as proved the Haseentio League of those peara and is acclaimed and photo. Armies are victorious. graphed for the American news-

his loan from Oologne and Ant- accordance with the Hamburg wore enjoined to depart from There would seem a fatality in werp, his monitions of war from resolation, a secret understand England by their Government, papora. Or we hear of him in this myalification of the Kaiser ae Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburg, ing with the King of Spain. and from that time a rigorous his son felt none. When the The Kaiser went to war becsum France (not much off Belgium, ominous to him as it should prove it is fast as likely that the Ger. They were to help him to fit out prohibition was placed upon Eag- Kaiser rebuked his son for his (1) the Crown Prince wanted war; where, doubtless, he fears assassi auspicions to us. It places man tail wagged the Epanish the Armada, and he was to restore lish trade-the League being

Boyish follice," that bright (2) because the Army were goad-nation); he is said also to have things as it were. young spark responded with traeing on the Crown Prince to force gone down to the Tyrol to egg on the magnitude of the struggle be the Empire ha declined, the London. What were those free 1408 England was reduced to We can graap dog, or vice versa. For, although their free trade privileges in then in command of the sea. Br Hohenzollern cheek, "But, Papa war; (3) bacanee, without all the mountaineers to stem Italy's fore Europs the better for this Hanseatic League was still strong. quoted by Sir J. H. Ramasy in listing treaties of peace in our trade privileges? They are signing one of the most humi you of all men, you've set the ex-question, the military authorities advance.

equalisation, of identities, this and hated Eagland with a deadly held the conditions to be favour. ample to Germany."

reduction of the flaming person and implacable hatred.

his history of the Houses of Lan history. If the historiane Bay And these words made Kaiser able for the long-heralded adven.

of the Kaiser to a mere plate of

This is olearly shown in s

caster and York (vol. I, page little or nothing about it that ta Wilhelm very angry. Here plain-ture of conquest and expansion;

identification like that of any whole series of extracte from the 150). Bis figures, which are their fault, not mine. It is all to ly was an undutiful son, a rakish When war osme, it was to the

other man in the German Army. boy who bore his dignities ill; a Crown Prince, rather than to the

Venetian archives which are given derived from the Parva Costuma, be found in Haklayt. fellow who wanted watching. Emperor, that the Army looked:

Germany is conscious that abe ised me of a sin of commission, let man traders in London were con For one thing it means that by Mr. Colvia; as he has convict show that the duties on the Ger "To Dantzig with him!" And youth which was to lead the way. is no more, the flesh and blood of now fighting for her life. There me now conviot him of a sin of the trade of other English ports Carsion; my object was to show

siderably less than the duties on to Dantzig the first-born went, e did. Thank the gods, the the most pronounced Monarch in is no longer any talk of the in- omission. And it is important, where, in company with the other Crown Prince was assigned the Europe seems to have vanished sistibility of German victory, because there is this flaw in his with London. But howdid the Gar that as the Prussians are babay- Death's Head Husaara quartered post of honour of piercing the into myth and myatory; in a word, The Germans recognise they are chain of proofs. It is never as mans scoure such privileges? Iing to-day, so they have bebaved there, the Crown Prince played as

French Army in the centre after the Kaiser no longer rules, his hated by Europe, that unless they tually shown that the German reply, by corruption and organis- bafore. They penetrate a country many pranke and bedevilmente as apturing Verdun. His general- very divinity is now the sport win the Allies will, and in such cities were in league with Philip.ed power their weapons then, as in the guise of peace, and then he dared-"just to vex Papa." abip upset the entire Garman or spoil of fate-the fate of Gar-way as to blant the German True, it is shown that they hated now. In the Hanseatio archives surp ontrol. If the inhabitants

offensive. It brought down many. In future time historians will Kluck and von Balow, stayed his

weapon for at least a generation. England, and it is also shown that there is a scale of bribes for every resout this process, then treachery We see this very plainly in the The Kaiser is in the position of they supplied Philip with muai-official in London, from the Lord and force are used, sad the last so doubt ranack Europe for data Banking movement, and, 41 a

"discussion bearing on this point, and I hope, fact, the Crown Prince's Army place about submarine warfare in real viotory can restore hia pre- have been no more than contra-

which is taking Hannibal, and he knows it. Only one and shipe. But this may Mayor down to the clerks of the expedient is war. The Prussians

Customs. if they ohanes pa this issue of the was only saved from destraation connection with America. The atige, save his Throne, perpetuate band trade, for all that the

are, in fact, a nation of land pira"" Sunday Chronicle, they will read by the abandonment of the main soldier, and sailors are for rath his dynasty. All that he stands National Reviews article actually from Letterbook K in the Guild-hatched out of a cannon ball, and Here is so illuminating entry tes. Napoleon said that they were my quite deliberate opinion that line of the offensive, which ended less piracy at all costs; the di- for depends upon the achieve-

hall archives: this Dantzig incident was largely disastrously for the Germans at plomatists and thinkers of Garments of the German Armies; provės.

they have prayed upon the rest of Just as Mr. the Marne,

Marshall Hall

"Grant by... the Mayor, al- Europe since the beginning of many are for common-sense. if they fail, he fails, ond

derman, sheriffs, and common- Till that event, the Crown

might my that three dead brides The Crown Prince had failed Where is the Kaiser ? No one with him the life of the Hohen-in three baths is rather a coin-

alty to the merchants of the Prince was merely regarded as a absolately. Since then little has knowe. It is impossible to say. zollerns.

vidence than a proof, so the pro-

Hans of Almsine (Germany) blood who enjoyed his fill been beardabout him in Germany, Plainly, he no longer decrees, for young of life and got what fun he could except in the nature of " private otherwise there would be no con-

German historian might object

within London to have their little book just published, that three German Fleets loaded

aldermen and all their liberties more or less irresponsibly. At Bandals." His Dame is not men-troversy.

Russia and Democracy: the as formerly granted... Dantzig however, this changed, has been found to be a very silly uncertainty about the procedure

and, German Canker in Russia," by "My invincible son"

to the gunwale with munitions of That there is controversy and

When we ask, therefore Where war for Spain proves nothing farther, that the said merchants G. de Wesselitsky (Heianmana The young man wan much an-

more than the existance

shall be quit of all custom, etc.; 1st.), M. de Wesselitsky in a to be adopted is sa certain as that is the Kaiser? noyed at Papa's disciplinarian young man and a bad soldier.

of a we aball pro There are all kinds of stories the Kaiser no longer arrogates to bably never know until the deep-

brisk contraband trade. tyranny, and resented it. Repre-

payable on merchandise on veteran Russian journalist and a senting the bean-ideal of the der about him, photographed with himself complete power. The er question is answered, Where

condition that they pay yearly good friend of the Entente. He A Secret Understanding. to the sheriffs for the time beis also a good patriot, and she ob- man cavalry officer, he soon found dancers on the balconies of French question is, Why is the Kaiser is Germany? Whether the Kai- Mr. Colvin has gone to Lap- the Army ready for him an Army chateaux, but no military refer to non-apparent? What has ser is at Potsdam or Antwerp, penberg for the German side of

ing the sum of forty shillings jact of his book is to show how and to the mayor for the time she Germans all through Bassina which for years past had chafed ence at all; eo far as leadership is happened to dim the lastre of his Maubeuge or Lemberg, is im the story, but Lappenberg, al-

being two barrels of best her history, have diverted Rassian at inactivity and had become concerned the Crown Prince has personality ?

material; he is everywhere and though a well-equipped historian, somewhat enspicious of the Kei- that his father is gravely and struggle which is shaking sil nothing.

vanished, and it is understood The answer is that in the great nowhere, just as he is all and was a Hamburger, and a bitter

ring, one barrel of sturgeon, policy to the injury of Russia and and a

hundredweight of good the baceft of Prussia. mer's "pesos proclivities." It was

partisan of the Hause. He should and clear polish wax or their

Prince Bismarck intrigued not long before he was able to a seriously displeased and inward-Europe only nations count, only On the ground, the flag is a have consulted Sartorius an ear- value in money prescribed." Russia into the war with Turkey, aert himself publicly as stont Pan-17, not a little pleased.

those whose destinies are at stake. foolish-looking object, but aloft, lier and fairer historian, who What a depth of degradation and then secured the friendship German,

From Pomp to Pessimism.

Things have got beyond the waving in the breeze, it is the wrote, as an impartial scholar, at you will say; but is it any deep of Turkey by proteoling her This was in the Reichstag, So the soq; now what about power or control of any ose min most inspiring thing man knows, the beginning of last century, er than the statement of one of against some of the results of the when, listening to a Chauvinistio Papa ?

in Germany, or elsewhere. Em The dag is the Kaiser. If Ger. before Germany bad again become his Majesty's Ministers at the war, Gemsa diplomacy led speech, the Crown Prinos in the The Kaiser started out, too, as perors bave no longer any sigui man arms are down, the flag is an Empire, and before the Ger- beginning of this war that the Russia into the war with Japan gallery broke into load clapping a general, only in the guise of cance in this Titanic struggle dows, and no one knows where mane found it profitable to con- naturalisation of a German fin saad then forced aron Ramsia com- Proas at the time treated it as stories, all waarsady for his entry ment save that of the military, about, gathering cheers of hands. As menal, the European Generalissimo. According to the there is no authority save that of his Majesty le, but when they are ceal their predatory history and ancier, Baron Bobroeder, was mercial treaty, which left Russia

the soldiers, there is no Govern- up the Koisery, too, is up and their predatory intentions. "good copy" but the Germans into Paris, which was to be a thore is no use in anything save salvoes, But his sceptre lies in of the Hanse, quotes & Hamburg

necessary to the credit of the City a mere bower of wood and drawer Sartorius, then, in his 'history of London 7 know better. They realised that triumphal march beyond all pre- the forces and utilities which pro- the tents of the General Staff.

of water to her Teutonia neigh Ignomalous Servitude. bour. the young Hohenzollern heir clap cedent in history. He is said to

resolution of 1579,"carried under But there were other things

In the same way Germany has ped his hands as a signal-to the have been" furious" at the little

His frown and smile are not great secrecy."It decreed that just as degrading. On September for years worked to peranade Army; they know its appeal Belgians daring to strike at "My see that. No doubt, his generals he is not even a subject for a car should sit in permanent com merchants of the Hauss of Al- in order to have the services of The Kaiser is astute enough to even pictorialised; not a soldier, Lubeck, Hamburg, and Bremen 20, 1805, it was agreed that the Sweden that Russia is her enemy. would not be unanswered. I Guarde," was not, From that day the No doubt the mild Chancellor field of command, forbidden all man idol to-day, Tirpitz, Zeppelin. that England should be forced to of two shillings on going in or war came about. Crown Prince became the Knight oaught his phrase. "Smash your interference. The forces of war. The Kaiser has done his work restore free trade by countervailing out of Bishopsgate with t

have bluntly warned him of the tooa. Hindenburg is the Germittee on the ofisirs of England; naine should be quit of payment the gallant Swedish Arm in Shining Armour, quite solipway through," from the Emperor, which the Kaiser has conjured up to-day he is waiting for ita results. duties; that "the English in the goods, seeing that they are charg. and Western Russia with their yatematically colonised sing the sarsole of the Kaiser, who, in the early stages of the have submerged him, for the If they are favourable, be will be Hanse towns be treated as hosed with the custody and repair of colonists, who betrayed who was the officially snubbed war, must have been in the time disfranchised him. To-day able to talk bigger than ever, but tages, fand part of their gcoda the said gate." Just imagine ted country by spring by his precocious off-spring. seventh heaven of delight. The

The Crown Prinos knew the Prees spoke of him as now here, ho la no body, he is merely an if they are unfavourable: he will sequestrated that the Emperor it, the Germans were put Fatherland just as th Army was tired of its long peace now there, and the Emperor, who emblem. Were he to die to not be able to talk at all. should be approached "to make in charge of one of the are doing here, and itched for war: loves travelling, we may be sure Germany is in the hands of the not without significance, the des- the Empire" and "lastly, to and on March 6, 1460, the Ger of tyranny in

night nothing would change, for This position of the Kaiser is the whole matter the business of gates of the City of London; Ambassador establ he rightly gauged the time, the spent a good part of his time speed- Army, the greatest citizen Army tiny of Germany has passed from treat with Spain, whose enmity mens are asked to deliver up the big spy system. An place, and the spot: His pole- ing to the West and to the East, so that history has known. Its will his keeping into that of his people. against England was notorious" keys because they had allowed: who did not favor nada struck the Kaiser & mortal cording to the promises of results is sovereign; there is no other They will endure or fall together. blow in prestige. From that mound victory.

When the Crown will Topple.

This programme, we know, was the gate to fall into decay. And was sure But the settlement now will only carried out as far as the duties here is another illuminating little the Russi In a war like this, which is so far so we are concerned, means At the Imperial Dist at Augsburg, Sheriffs of London dated Novem come through the people, which, and the Empire were concerned, passage. It is a writ to the nothing less than a European con- the German Armies,

in 1582, c by favour, as Wheeler ber 16, 1351:

responsible for the war.

tioned.

mont it was quite common to read Then the stagnation of trench in the German popers words such warfare began; the winter same

our poltroon: Emperor," the and then the Rusalane crept up

scoute wor.

will.

Where the Sceptre Lies.

and

time.

In this connection I would ad- vise my readers to procure

hen