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THE long silence at Doorn was rarely broken in the Of the post-war years. 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 war. 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

The

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

August 12, 1941.

The ex-Kaiser, Wilhelm II, died in June at Doorn, where he had been in exile for 23 years. In this picturo, ha 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 had come. "If we are to bleed to death," was nil he could say, "England shall at all events loso India." Aftor all the fine mar tial phrases he had bestowed upon his army and directed against other nations, he entered upon war a desperate 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.

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

Who

Emperor Ran Away

away that his figure dwindl

ed into utter insignificance.

By A. J. Cummings

In his private talks he repeat- ed and amplified the most GX-. treme and absurd optimis- tic gossip. He refused to read adverse reports of the political or military situn- tion. He disliked to have about

8th 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), a daughter.

The

known that with the col- form of self-defence, lapse of German resistance He liked to think of himself he had stolen across the as the embodiment of aesthetic

destiny and the destiny of truth. his Empire

the to

final test,

for something WAN

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

Tuesday, Aug. 12, 1941.

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CUNNING MANOEUVRE

moment of illumination when people ceased to have, any ture was sparious and his know. It is perhaps true to say that, I must have been a terrible In spite of all his blustering, he WOR 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 génerals. He hated and feared Eng- of the divinity of kingship. His land. Most of all he hated first act as Emperor was to

armour.

He pondered but rejected a

But he

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 The faithful Hindenburg's de.. Edward VII. Edward re- the Army. "I and the Army," turned the compliment by he declared, "we were born for of the Archduke and his wife at mand that he should abdicate

Serajevo he was conducting the annual regatta in Kiel week and and depart for Holland "with- scarcely troubling to con- each other."

out delay" left him lifeless with Indecision. He got rid of Bismarck, who enjoying himself immensely. ceal his contempt for Ger-

"I never will," he A motor-boat approached his THE war in China goes on many's knight in shining for more than thirty years had and on alongside the new de

been the dominant power in yacht. The Emperor signalled cried, "It would be like a cap- Germany, and he made a sad that he was not to be disturbed, tain deserting a sinking ship." velopments, which are principal-

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

And so in the carly dawn the Russia at the moment little dealing with the English King the isolation of France and the into a cigarette-case and hurled consolidation of the German it on board. A. sailor picked it more than an allegation. There and English policy:

"Lies! is reason to think that the

The dog is lying! Empire. To this end he aimed up and presented it to his man who had made a thousand fiery specches the last proud sovereign, England 1 Uncie ! a most at avoiding a risk of collision Japanese army of occupation in

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

patch he was _Indo-China_will not seriously de-

furious. Not lerns, the great romantic-drove Edward VIL!-Ineffable cheek!-

He made-it-a-rule-that Ger-grieved. Ho cared little for the away for ever from the land of plete Japan's strength in China

Pharisee! Rot! Twaddle ! many should not be on bad terms Archduke; he cared little for his bleak triumphs-and-final- and that this bold move which

Bunkum! Hurrah, we've got with Russia and Great Britain at anyone. He liked to wallow in humiliation,

Not a courtier, not a friend, has been accomplished without

the British scoundrels out the same time and that accord- wishy-washy sentimentality

but seemed incapable of a deep begged him to stay. a blow will not cost her dearly

this time!"

ingly British sea-power should sincere human emotion, even for on the war fronts from which

never be challenged. Bismarck his wife, who filled him only she has squeezed the few to the divisions dispatched

HENEVER he opened his had also encouraged France to with a deadly ennui. W south.

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.

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Years afterwards Germany passed once more into servitude under another kaiser. But the now kaiser is a man of the people.

HE

was furious because the

There were those who thought murder of the Archduke

He wanted mean the recall of William to the royal custe. But his THE Kaiser had two main was an affront and a danger to the end of a free republic might Potsdam. Hitler at least knew obsessions. One was to Serbin to be taught a lesson. better than that. He knew that But he neither expected nor Germany would never call back In a crisis, or confronted build a navy to match the British Navy Churchill infuriated him sion. It is probably the in- with a strong personality, he by calling it a luxury mavy-desired war. The tidings that the Emperor who ran away. adequacy of the force that has sheltered himself behind words and the other was concerned toned

with the Yellow Peril in the down American and

of boorish abuse.

Far East, which he painted in British reaction from an open

There is no doubt something colours almost as lurid as those! break to a more or less friendly

in the view of Emil Ludwig, one used until very recently by application of sunctions.

of his historians, that his un- ilitler about Soviet Russia.

Nearly all his personal diplo controlled arrogance developed

matic excursions either fell flat

scare

over

from a thwarted childhood" or ended disastrously.

resolve to create an unconquer-

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 ing his infirmity-und deprived in Dean politics, coupled with his jait accompli and nothing will be particular of the sympathy and able fleet, which brought the done about it provided that it good will of a mother who French and British close lo is not carried further. The

raised

Thailand lavished 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 smouldering 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 The Japanese himself to blamò for the fact trying to stifle it and thus Burma Road. relegates to a secondary position have established a large area be- that world' opinion fastened the the subjugation of Indo-China. tween their permanent bases in guilt on himself and that bol In the meantime the Japanese China and the Chinese strong became the symbol of all the can go ahead making an effec- holds. By continuous thrusts cruelties and injustices and tive force of their symbolic by small well-armed veterans blundering stupidities which cul- southward expansion army, the invader keeps disperaing the ninated in the greatest crime building a naval base from the defending forces and retains the humanity over committed fine facilities in Camranh Bay initiative despite the disparity against itself. and accustoming the ambitious in numbers between the forces.

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

ken.

will continue to be kept at bay stomach for a stand-up fight. Rather unhappily for the on all sectors by comparatively He was not averse from com- Chinese they do not benefit as small Japanese garrisons while fortable little wars conducted by But a Tel. 29352 yet from the diversion of Japan- the armies of the New Order in, other nations at his behest or in Tol. 68515 cue military foreds to the north Asin simultaneously, press the his Imperial interest.

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