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THE long silence at Doorn was rarely broken in the post-war years. Of the countless human tragedies caused by the world war few can have awakened a smaller sympathetic re- sponse than that which be- fell the German Emperor.

William II did not want the In his own justifi- cation he has protested in the bitterness of his heart that he did not cause the war. But the almost uni- versal belief in those terrible years that he was its author does not explain why the most glittering and power- ful monarch of modern

war.

The

times was left after his fall in an abyss of silent derision. It was be- cause he ran

August 12, 1941.

The ox-Kaiser, Wilhelm II, died in June at Doorn, where he had been in axilo for 23 years. In this pictura, he is shown at right conferring with the late Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg in 1917:

Russia was mobilising her army of a million along the frontier fell like a thunderbolt, The end hnd 'come. "If we are to bleed to death," was all he could any,, "England shall at all events lose India." After all the fine mar tial phrases "he. ' had bestowed upon his army and directed against other nations, he entered upon war a desperato man.

"Let the politicians," he com- manded, "hold their tongues in- war-time until the strategists permit, them to speak." Almost as soon as the words were out of his mouth he had become the victim and slave of his own reckless axiom.

I

He never risked his life. He remained aloof from the fight- ing fronts. In hia public speeches he was full of brag- gadocio.

Emperor Who Away

Ran

away that his figure dwindl-

ed into utter insignificance.

A. J. Cummings

By A. J.

In his private talka he repeat- ed and amplified the most - treme

ох- and*

absurd optimis- tic gossip. He

refused to read adverse reports

of the political or military situn- tion. He disliked to have about

9th August, Anne Toone (nee From the moment it was self-conceit became in part a cumstances, putting his own him men ready to tell him the Dowbiggin), o daughter,

The

known that with the col- form of self-defence.

destiny and the destiny of truth. his Empire to the lapse of German resistance

final He liked to think of himself

WOR something for he had stolen across the as the embodiment of aesthetic test,

Hongkong Telegraph. frontier into Holland his culture in purope. But as cul which he had never bargained.

moment of illumination when people ceased to have any ture was spurious and his know. It is perhaps true to say that, I must have been a terrible in spite of all his blustering, he Was told brusquely by further use for a man whose ledge shallow.

buccaneering ejaculations, there General Groner that the Army courage seemed to end in

He continued his reign as he was no ruler who dreaded war was no longer behind him and began it, wrapped up in his own on the grand scale as much as would march quietly home only words.

grandeur and in his conception William dreaded it.

under its own generals. He hated and feared Eng of the divinity of kingship. His land. Most of all he hated first act as Emperor was to

He pondered but rejected il

Tuesday, Aug. 12, 1941,

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CUNNING Manoeuvre

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Edward VII

The faithful Hindenburg's de-

and feared his uncle, King appeal not to the people but to WHEN the news was brought hero's death.

to him of the assassination Edward re- the Army. "I and the Army,"

abdicate turned the compliment by he declared, "we were born for of the Archduke and his wife at mand that he should

Serajevo he was conducting the scarcely troubling to con- cach other."

annual regatta in Kiel week and and depart for Holland "with- out delay" loft him lifolose with ceal his contempt for Ger- "He got rid of Bismarck, who enjoying, himself immensely.

indecision. "I never will," he

THE war in China goes on many's knight in shining for more than thirty years had A motor-bost approached his cried. "It would be like a çap

armour.

and on alongside the new de-

been the dominant power in yucht. The Emperor signalled velopments, which are principal-

Germany, and he made a sad that he was not to be disturbed. tain deacrting a sinking ship."

But he went. "Well, if it ly the occupation of French This is the kind of marginal mess of Bismarck's policy. Bis- But the officer in the boat

daringly persisted. Waving on must be so... but not before Indo-China and the threat to note he wrote on documents marck had two simple objects high a dispatch, he thrust it to-morrow morning." Russia-nt the moment little dealing with the English King the isolation of France and the into a cigarette-case and hurled more than an allegation. There and English policy: is reason to think that the Japanese army of occupation in Indo-China will not seriously de- plete Japan's strength in. China and that this bold move which has been accomplished without a blow will not cost her dearly on the war fronts from which she has squeezed the few divisions dispatched to the south.

A sailor picked it And so in the early dawn the consolidation of the German it on board. "Lies! The dog is lying! Empire. To this end he aimed up and presented it to his man who had made a thousand

sovereign,

fiery speeches the last proud Uncie ! England!

D most at avoiding a risk of collision

When the Kaiser read the dis. representative of the Hohenzol charming fellow, this King between Austria and Russia,

patch he Was furious. Not lerns, the great romantic-drove Edward VII.! Ineffable cheek!

He made it a rule that Ger- grieved. He cared little for the away for ever from the land of Pharisen-!--Rot---Twaddle_L many should-not-be-on-bad-terms-Archduke; he cared little for his bleak triumphs and final Bunkum! Hurrah, we've got with Russia and Great Britain at anyone. He liked to wallow in humiliation,

Not a courtier, not a friend, the British coundrels. out the same time and that accord-4 wishy-washy sentimentality

but seemed incapable of a deep te ged him to stay. this time!"

ingly British sea-power should sincere human emotion, ever for never be challenged. Bismarck his wife, who filled him only THENEVER he opened his had also encouraged France to with a deadly ennui. mouth about foreign affairs gratify her ambition for colonial This force can be regarded as he managed to make mischief expansion in order to divert her nothing more than a symbol of in some part of the world. He energy from Europe. Japanese might for 50,000 was boastful, vainglorious, self- troops would not get very far in assertive, obstinate:

W

But his

One

HE was furious because the murder of the Archduke

to Was

Years afterwards Germany passad once more into servitude under another kaiser. But the new kaiser is a man of the 'people,

There were those who thought

HE Kaiser had two main was an affront and a danger to the end of a free republic might the royal caste. He wanted mean the recall of William to .Potsdam. Hitler at least knew Serbia to be taught a lesson. better than that. He knew that But he neither expected nor Germany would never call back

The tidings that the Emperor who ran away,

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By Lichty

In a crisis, or confronted build a navy to match the British Navy-Churchill Infuriated him with a strong personality, he by calling it a luxury navy 'desired war. sheltered himself behind words and the other was concerned with the Yellow Peril in the of boorish abuse.

Far East, which he painted in There is no doubt something colours almost as lurid as those in the view of Emil Ludwig, one used until very recently by

f his historians, that his un- Hitler about Soviet Russia. controlled arrogance developed

Nearly all his personal diplo-| matic excursions either fell flat from a thwarted childhood. or ended disastrously.

The Japanese are showing themselves remarkably cunning in this affair and success has

He was born with a withered It was beyond question his already rewarded them in the

left arm. Driven back upon neurotic personal intrusions into tacit admission by the de- himself by the necessity of hid the delicate machinery of Euro. mocracies that their coup is a ing his infirmity and deprived in pean, politics, coupled with his resolve to create an unconquet- fait accompli and nothing will be particular of the sympathy and able fleet, which brought the done about it provided that it

a mother who French and British close to good will of is not carried further. The scare raised

Thailand invished her affections upon her, gether and produced the fateful serves the Japanese purpose too; younger children, his Intolerable military conversations between

the two Governments. it is a scare that may develop

An irresistible impulse was into a fire alarm for all of the South Pacific, but while it is the south (Indo-China)-in fact, given to the war machine and kept amouldering it occupies the from the latter they may expect war followed as night follows attention of the democracies in new offensives against the day. The Kaiser. had chiefly trying to stifle it and thus Burma Road. The Japanese himself to blame for the fiel relegates to a secondary position have established a large area be- that world opinion fastened the the subjugation of Indo-Chinn. tween their permanent bases in guilt on himself and that he In the meantime the Japanese China and the Chinese strong- became the symbol of all the anil can go ahead making an effec-holds. By continuous thrusts crueltics and injustices tive force of their symbolic by small well-armed veterans blundering stupidities which cul southward expansion army, the invader keeps dispersing the ninated in the greatest crime building a naval base from the defending forces and retains the humanity ever committed fine facilities in Camranh Bay Initiative despite the disparity and accustoming the ambitious in numbers between the forces, against itself.

The irony of it is that the eyes of their aviators to the new Until the Chinese get some

CO.star that has swum into their

ken..

Rather unhappily for the Chinese they do not benefit as Tol 20352 yet from the diversion of Japan- Tel. 08348ese military forces to the north (bhe Manchukuoan bordor) and

heavy artillery and planes they bemedalled gladiator had no will continue to be kept at bay stomach for a stand-up fight, on all sectors by comparatively He was not averse from com- small Japanese garrisons while fortable little wars conducted by the armies of the New Order in other nations at his behest or in But a Asia Bimultaneously press the his Imperial interest.

world war in unfavourable cir- offensive elsewhere.

bimi, tawage Tradingu

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