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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1938.

The Greatest World War

Figure Is 79 To-Day

To-day is the 70th birthday of the greatest Agure of the Great European War, 1914- 1918, and who is in retiro- ment lo-day at Doorn, Holland-ex-Kalaer Wilhelm

11.

Though he is in forced acclusion, hin name has of late been again in the lime- fight, as very recently great interest Waa aroused in nclentific circles by a new work on archaeology written by the ex-Kaiser and publish- od in Berlin. It is entitled "Studies on Gorgons," and is dedicated to his father, Fre- derick III, whom he described as "the patron of the ex- cavation of Olympla."

More about the ex-Kaiser, not as a War Lord but as an English country squire, ia provided in E. F. Benson's bank "The Kaiser and English Relations," published by Long-

FRANK,

.."Now for a real good English cup of tea," "Mr. Benson records the ex-Kai- ser as saying when he fled Germany and reached as an exile at Amerongen Castle in Holland.

"Destiny had been cruci in ordaining that a man of his temperament should be Emperor of a great nation." writes Mr. Benson.

"Throughout his reign he had

THE EX-KAISER AND HIS FAMILY.

NEA

"Peace Patrol"

by Lent Colonel

Stewart Roddie, member of the disarmament and other important missions to Germany directly after the war.

Colonel Roddle maintains that "Our Royal Deserter" had "never actually held the affection of the people. He had been a spectacular success. They had loved his panoply of state. The sound of his motor hooter, play- ing the first few notes a bugle call, as he raced along the

Linden;

or his Impressive appearance on a horse with imposing entourage, never falled to evoke enthusiasm, which, however, was based more on passing emation than on sound petise and confidence. The ex-Emperor bad

the art of appearing a fizer fellow than he was, and to this his subjects responded with a show of admiration which time and subsequent history proved to be superficial"

Colonel Roddie tells a story of his examination of the

Plans -for the church erected la memory of his father. "The architect had placed an asterisk above the top of the steeple, drawing attention to a marginal re mark. The Emperor, in his im- pulsive way, mid: 'Oh, I like your iden of

4 star above the

steeple: Can The architect had

not the courage to tell him the real significance of the mark, so up went the star, and It remained until, by

order of the republican si it was removed as being

Colonel Roddle recalls that the ac- cusations of cowardice against the Kalser became so widespread and harmful that they led to the private Issue from Doorn of a

pamphlet "Why the Kaiser left Ger-

In summary it said:

(1) It had been. the Kaiser's wish As King of Prussia and Emperor governing a prosperous and contented reckoned at twenty million pounds, to march back at the head of his to Germany, But Field- of Germany, William II was, for nation and had been a very promising He owned 40 palaces and 74 estates. troops thirty years, one

hal Hindenburg Marshal

and Empress Augusta Groener

General of the foremost figure, though by no means the most His wife,' the

had gures In-Europe and the world and important, In the political life of Victoria, who had borne him six sons dort as Quartermaster-General) told succeeded Luden- (who continually in the limelight, but the Europe. But he could not conceal and one daughter since their

mar him the troops would nol march backt nineteen years that have clapsed from himself that he had not shown riage in 1801, died in April, 1921.

with him, while if he remained

In since his reluctant abdication on the to any advantage when measured by On November 5th, in the following wi

his defeat of Germany in the Great War his uncle Edward VII. Indeed,

the ex-Kaiser married again, Germany, the Allies would probably year,

the Armistice. conclude and s ignominious fight into popularity within his own country his second wife being Princess Her not (2) Suicide was not compatible Iloiland Inve been years of had declined. His bellicose utter- mione of Reuss, the widow of a serious responsibilities of king complete eclipse, during which he has ances from 1908 onwards were open German Prince.

with his religious belief and would ship: never once, for all his sincere lived the life of a lonely country to the Interpretation that the Kaiser Possessed of immense energy and further evidence of cowardice. patriotism, had he rendered any gentleman practically shut up in his had begun to contemplate the "ad- true service to his country, nor ever Ilaus Door."

vantages of a successful war. Whe- an Inteligence which, though it had had he failed to use his great abill-

quiet.

never shown any grasp of the

self-mistrust.

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(3) Had he ties in the couse of Euroocan dis- The ex-Kaiser was born in Berlin her this was so or not, the impression neither depth nor strength, was at individual he would cd as a private on January 27, 1850, the eldest son row stronger in the years when least keen and agile, the ex-Kaiser the mercy of the Reds. Surrender

go to

to the making of great have been a simple matter. Holland "Save of those moments of hysteri- of Prince Frederick of Prussia, after followed 1908, that

The Germany of cal exallation when some impetuous wards Crown Prince and Emperor, Coming when the War party In Car which se solid, enduring qualities for trial by the enemy would then and imprudent Impromptu had and the Princess Victoria (Princess many would be in the ascendant and rulers. It was not the least demerit could protect him.

would not be denied. Britain's of his confirmed megalomania that that time could not, and the greatest satiated his craving for imperial Royal), the eldest child of Queen greatest General, Lord Roberts, had a lie betante increasingly impressed of all humiliations the surrender of gestures, he had been the prey of Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe no doubt about the matter, and spoke with his own Importance, he became their Kaiser-would not be spared fear and Jealousy and deep-seated Coburg-Gotha,

everywhere with a prophetic fervour proportionately unable to deal with the people.

that

(1) To have sought "a glorious dong Bank Bldg. He was injured at birth in such which was oficially ignored. But the reallites, and, there was no doubt fashion that his left arm was per- way in which Great Britain turned he was genuinely surprised that the end at the front," to have led a "for- IDEAL SQUIRE

manently useless. Destined

was a technical im- for a deaf cor to her propliets does at tragedy of Sarajevo was to be made forn hope,"

the excuse for a woritl war. He possibility. The Armsilice was to be "liis happiest years were now to mary career, as was usund with teast no far to prove that she, herself wrote at the time that the apology signed the next day and the Kaiser

(in exile), for the wicked German Princes, the loss of his arm and no aggressive intentions.

was ample and left no excuse for could not have reached the front in censed from troubling and he, far as regarded a great handicap.

In fact,

psychologists_attributed. __The_difficulties_of__William II's war. It was one of the ex-Kaiser's time. from weary, could-be-at-rest------

this clrcumstance the introduction of autperatic rule were increased by daily habits of Doorn to read aloud If only Providence had consecrated thi

com two facturs, The Kaiser, vanity for an hour-mostly travel descrip- hit to be a squire of ample means such a powerful "inferiurity and calate, just outside some county ex" that the Kaiser, in his efforts apart, was a bad judge of character, tions, memoirs, and historical novels. cory that the Kaleer was not res- town in England, what a pleasant to overcome 11, was led to adopt an and the men in the inner councils of it is a favourite recreation with de- ponsible for the action of his states- mun. "Even those who cared for and Who can forget and useful existence might have attitude of ruthless egotism and of State were poor statesmen. "Poll- throned monarchy.

knew him best admitted that he was unnatural arrogance.

cally we are donkeys," said a high Lord Rosebery's plcture

ture of Napoleon the been his!

who William "Itis defeats, ruinous in a monarch, the Hohenzollerns in 1888,

ascended the throne of official of the German Foreign Office reading to a reluctant circle at St. the unwitting tool of others

Inrned his weakest points

thele on the lo Prince von

to Bulow when asked Helena Will Gourgraud fell asleep, advantage.

They would have been merely humorous

kept unpleasant fifteenth of June. No ruler ever what was Germany's weakest point. and when Mine. de Montholon AUS- things from him; they faltered him, and even endearing.

"He would have been a magistrate came into a fairer and more inspiring The Kaiser and his advisers lived in gested "Zairo," thereafter they had they snade up bis mind for him; they

German Empire a

a world of their own and the fact "Zairo" will they "groaned in spirit put the on the county bench and have mu- Inheritance. The

question and all unperceived the tored into the town whenever it sat, had acquired vast wealth, bid fair to that none of them realised that to at

very name." Perhaps slipped the answer in with it. They meant of industrial trample upon Belgium hectoring in manner to his collea- become the greatest

the Wilhelm's tales of his ancestors were gave him a flag to wave, a drum to ques, but diligent in bis duties. nations, possessed the most powerful certain intervention of Britain is itself more stimulating.

rattle and a box el matches to play "As a, member of the borough military organisation in the world, complete condemnation of their states- The ex-Kaiser formed a fruitful with. These, they told him, would council he would have proposed a and the people were as wax in the manship.

subject for the biographer. The frighten the foc. He believed them, hundred reforma on such subjects as hands of their rufers.

most popular study of the

fallen and only when it was too tute did he drainage, overcrowding, slum cicar

monarch is the work of the German perceive that his playthings bad set ance, postal deliveries and the light- LOVE OF THE SPECTACULAR

In the end the Kaiser, who had author, Emil Ludwig, who described the world aflame." The Best big event of his reign, gloried in make-belleve

** war, with him, probably justly, B

The late Lord Rosebery made the "Every Sunday morning with his

and trappings, suddenly raised to power, who found following reflection on his downfall: wife and family he would have which naturally attracted world-wide its banners, bands,

the attention, was

"It certainly was a melancholy exit for one who had proclaimed himself memorated

so loudly as almost the Almighty, to

ing and paving of the streets.

THE GREAT WAR

walked into the town to save Sunday Bismarck, which was for ever com- ment he had so recklessly given to

dismissal of began to realise that the encourage- no one to tell him the truth."

labour, for Cathedral service, and

at hin, hospitable table and eaten the that time william himself good dinner provided his econo- mical and faithful wifeft

Mr. Benson Imagines the ex-Kaiser

"He

have tho

director of

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the Bishop, the Dean and the Chap-

by Sir John Tennell's his war party was being brought to CHARACTER OUTLINED ter would have been frequent guests sketch in Punch, "Dropping the Pilot." an issue and in the fateful last days

An interesting sketch of phases of come from that high position to being This took place in 1890 and from of July 1014, convinced that he

became possessed an invincible army, he took his churacter is contained in the book dunned for rate at Door" Germany's policy. the great plunge. He Bigned the His restless energy led him now documents that launched Germany in the card-room of the County Club and again to make spectacular tours, into the bloody struggle with trem- like the one to the Holy Land in bling reluctance, and before long the laying down the low to dispare 1898, to rush to London and other control of his troops had passed en- af bridge, and soon afterwards re-

capitals and discuss affairs of State firely out of his hands. voking amid general satisfaction.

As nominal Commander-in-Chief, ndds, with sovereigns and statesmen, and would," Mr. Benson "have been president of the local to bring himself into the limelight by the Kaiser fitted from place to place cricket and golf clubs. He would murtial speeches to his troops. At on the battlefields, his doings and contributed large pictures to times he seemed to be sincerely sayings still faithfully trumpeted by annual Art Exhibition. He anxious to keep the peace; at others, accompanying pressmen. Believing he would have got up penny readings as when he telegraplied to President that Germany would yet triumpli, in his village, and recited the more Kruger in 1890, he appeared to be almost up to the last refused to read famous passages in Shinkespeare's bent on causing trouble..

the signs pointing to her downfall in He was consistent, however, in his the autumn of 1018. When the blow plays. He would have had shooting parties in the autumn, and told tall efforts to give Germany a "place in fell in the shape of a request from stories about his prowess.

the sun," to maintain her Army, ex- the new Government hastily set up He would have composed a hymn tend her Colonial Empire, foster her in Berlin for his abdleation, he re-

November tune and been highly indignant when trade and make her voice heard, if luctantly complied on the organist refused to use it at not always respected, on all questions and next

the Dutch day crossed Cathedral service,

of international poilties. In these frontier, leaving Hindenburg and the "Morally, he would have led A nims, indeed, he atlained a large other Army Commanders to control blameless life, and his boundless measure of success and the final as best they could the demoralised energy would have spent itself barmless and often beneficent enter- launching of Germany into the Great German armies as they streamed back on. Wed. Sun.

into revolution-shaken Germany. Prise,"

Mr. Benson laments that destiny DANgerous idEAS

"HANG THE KAISER" dented him this humbler and happier

The Castle of Amerongen was first Throughout what was to prove a sphere, and cruelty thrust into a crippled and the sceptre that he disastrous reign, the Kaiser clung to assigned to the tallen Emperor by the was not strong enough lo wield with two ideas. One was that the will of Dutch authorities as a residence and

Germany must prevail

In all the he afterwards moved to Doorn. The steadiness and discretion,

declared the ex- Counelis of Europe with fimself as Treaty of Peace GRANDSON OF QUEEN VICTORIA Chief Diplomat a role for which he Kaiser a criminal and arrangements

unftied. The were made for his trial in London. Mon. Wea. exceptionally The ex-Kaiser, as a ¡trand-son of Was her late Majesty Queen Victoria, had other was the belief that the future The "Hang the Kaiser" agitation will great esteem for his cousin, the late of Germany lay on the high seas, a boat fresh in the minds of most King George V, and at the latter's policy which might easily result in people. His extradition was formal- funeral last year, he sent his eldcat losing the substance in clutching the ly demanded on January 10, 1920, grandson, to London to represent shadow, for the tremendous progress but was refused by the Dutch ov him, while a wreath was sent in his made by Germany in naval affairs crnment. name and that of his wife, Princess could have been continued without Hermine. Both the young Prince openly menacing the hard-earned there were few Indeed outside Ger- For further Information please apply to: Wilhelm Frederick, and the Duchess rights of the British Empire. of Brunswick (the Kaiser's daughter) In ond respect 1008 was an im- had been drained of her blood and CHINA NATIONAL AVIATION CORPORATION were visitors at Buckingham Palace portant year in the reign of William her wealth, a War Lord was still a King's Bldg., Connaught Road

Investments 11. For twenty years he had been rich man. His in 1938.

in

War was the more deplorable.

At the final fall of the "All I#għest" |

many to pity him. While his country

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ACROSS

1 Refined taste for a dainty per-

haps (8).

do

Though his occupation is a stable one he has little to nowadays (0),

'The kindest thing to say of this sort of artist is that he is ahead of his time (8).

10 One of the fairy folk (0). 11 There would be no difficulty in

getting this official on an Alder- shot football field (8).

12 Hinif a dozen in this Hine would

be struggling (0).

of

14 Presumably the taking of this

sort

fortress was. some struggle (10).

18 Immoderate with anger at heart

-(10).

22 Is this good for making locka go

smoothly7 (0).

23 A graduate in a carriage maker

a gourd (8).

24 Boxers would find

annoying

of course with so many in the ring (0).

25 An old singer (8).

20 How do they teach In a nudist colony school since they cannot have this? (0).

27 The pattern of this puzzle

shows this quality (B).

'DOWN

1 Gorge to corrupt (0),

2 Dormant thought inanimate (0).

A fruity colour (6).

4 The losses in war seem to be

made of chance bonds (10).

12

13

The deficiency seems to be a contradiction in the matter of time (8).

7 An old-fashioned sweet (8).

8 Apostate (8).

13 "Curtail Joy" na an anagram

is scarcely opt (10),"

| 15 Could this punishment be a privato matter in the army? (8).

10 This has an exciting effect (8). 17 Spanish dance (8).

12 This vehicle sounds almost

good-looking (0);

..

20 No this vegetable is not des-

tructive to motors (6).

21 Completely almost completely a

shrub (6).

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