FATE OF THE KAISER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 145, 19 June 1915, Page 13

FATE OF THE KAISER.

SUPPOSING HE IS CAPTURED WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH HIM?

Seen, have been telling iw Lhat. aeconiin» to 11,,. .horoscope ivhioh has !„.,■„ cast, tli ( . war is to come to an early end: while the Kaiser, threatonod liv tlic sword, is to <li.-. either hanged or suffocated. In tlir meantime, it may not he uniiiti-n-itins tv discuss penalties ttliich .(.uld actually !.<■ nirtfil out to the "lw«l hoy of Europe 1, j n t |,,. ~,-,.„, of |)is fnlliiu' into our liundw, as Niipoleon ili<l in 1814. Napoleon. Ifliw KtilfwndotH military senilis was » 0 yrcatlv feared l, v tli'e I Allh-U Powers that they declined tu'allow liim to remain at na« imprteonvd first at Kllw. and then nt St. Helena. Sot only was liis military -cniiis feared, but jhc was regarded by other niona-rchs of Kurc)j.e a* a umirpev, and was flnaHy imprisoned \<y them at St. Helena to get thy Bourljons hack agvun in France in ordi-r to settle the principle of divine rifiht and to steady their -own thrones. The 'position Of the Kaisor. however, who. as the London "Star" remark.-, id a very "pewter Xapolvoll," is (|iKte djif. ferent. He » a Sovereign by divine an;i ko \ tmg as the Prilswian people «ant him as their King, neither the Allies nor anybody else can lind thslightest lep*| or moral jnstifieatJon for dethroning iiitn or imprisoning him at v 'l. Helena or anywhere else.

_In the event of our capturing the Kaiser, he would be a prisoner so long as the war lasted, as Napoleon HI was after Ins surrender at Sedan in September, 187(1; but immediately the war was over Napoleon 111. was released from the Castle Wilhelmshdic. near Kasscl, where he had .been secluded.

It is quite within the bounds of possibility that the Germans will force the Kaiser from the throne, as the. French did Napoleon 111., fur it seems probable among other things, that the kingdoms of Bavam and Hanover will secede from tin; Germanic Federation; Poland will |, c annexed by Russia. Alsace-Lorraine will be returned to France, Sehlesw ig-Hol-stein will be retran.sferred to Denmairk and the Kaiser wiil atitoinatk-allv co.i«v to be Kni|HTur, because he will have no Empire, ami will be left as King of Prussia as long ac the Prussians want him.