THE KAISER'S LETTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 4, 5 January 1920, Page 5

THE KAISER'S LETTERS.

INTERNAL FOES. ANARCHY, REPUBLICANISM. FEAR OF THE FRENCH. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, January 2. "Chauvanistie, republican France, and intriguing ridiculous England," afford the subjects of the Imperial homily in to-day's series of the Kaiser's letters. The sixth letter, dated September, 1895, referring to the Far East, urges the necessity of uniting to resist Buddhism, heathenism, and barbarism, for the defence of the Cross, and adds that the united resistance of all European powers is equally necessary against our common internal foes, anarchism, republicanism, and nihilism. The Kaiser proceeds to refer to reforms In the French Army, involving the proposal to form "a new Continental army on ray western frontier. This project has fallen like a thunderbolt, and has created deep alarm in Germam - , particularly as the French papers are telling U8 that the army is meant to rush our borderland in a war of revenge." The Kaiser continued:—"This event happening at the moment your officers .arc being decorated, and M. LobanofF, the" Russian Ambassador feted by 'France, has given affairs an u«rly look, as if Russia would like iFrance to be on the offensive against Germany. God knows, I have done all in my power to preserve peace, but if France goes on, openly or secretly encouraged like this, to violate all rules of international courtesy and peace in peace times, one fine day, my dearest 'Nicky, you will find yourself suddenly embroiled is the most horrible war Europe ever saw, which ty the masses and history perhaps may be fixed upon you as the cause. COUNSELS OjF DECEIT. "If you are allied to the French, keep those damned scoundrels in order; if you cannot, don't let your men go to 'France. Make the French believe you are allied, and turn their heads until they lose them, and we fight in Europe, instead of for it, against the East." The sevqnth letter discusses the dangers to monarchies, and cays: "Is it not a fact that the friendship of Russia and France makes one uneasy? Every sovereign is the sole master of his country - 6 interests, and shapes his policy accordingly, 'but danger is brought to our principle of MonarchUm through lifting the Republic to a pedestal by the form under which that friendship is shown. "The constant ippearance of princes, grand ukes, statesmen, and generals in full reviews, buria'U, -dinners, and races with the head of the Republic makes Republicans believe that they arc quite honest, excellent people, with whom the princes can consort. Don't forget that Jauree sits on the Throne of. the King and Queen of France by the gra-ce of God, whose heads the French Republicans cut off. Nicky, take my word on it, the curse of God has stricken that people for ever. We Christion Kings and Emperors have one holy duty imposed 'by heaven, to uphold the principle of Monarchism. By the grace of God we can. We must have good relations with Republican iFrance, but never be intimate with her." ' ENGLAND MEANS SOMETHING.' Dealing with England, the Kaiser save that Lobanoff's news during his visit to Berlin that there was reason to sus- | peet that England was after the Dardanelles stupe'fled him. He adds: "The quaint way the fleet sulks around the Dardanelles indicates that England means something there. M. Malet, during a farewell visifto the Foreign Office, used very blustering words about Germany bc'having badly to England in Africa, adding that after buying off France by concessions in Egypt, England would be at liberty to look after us. He was even. so undiplomatic as to utter the word war. I answered that the British were making themselves ridiculous. If they, got into trouble with, anybody, I wouldn't move a Pomeranian grenadier to help them. I suppose that would cool them." The eighth 'letter, dated January, 1896, deals with the Jameson raid, and says: "The Transvaal Republic has been attacked in the most foul way, apparently not without England's knowledge. I used very severe language in London, ■and also cupened communication with Paris for the common defence of our endangered interests. I hope all will come right, but I will never allow the British to stamp out the Tranevaal.' , THE UNRULY BISMARCK. The Kaiser's next two letters show his touchy mood over the order of precedence at the Moscow coronation, it being reported that the hereditary (ierman grand dukes have precedence over Prince Henry, the Kaiser's representative. The Kaiser reminds Nicky that his houee, as the reigning one in Germany, is first. He next calls attention to "British fanfaronades against Us which," lie comments, "make them supremely ridicu-1 lous, and have no impression on mc. J The worse they are hampered in Africa, the better for us in Asia." Then that "unruly man Bismarck" ruffled the Kaiser, by inspiring the "'Hamburg Nachriehten" to announce a secret treaty bctw'ecn Russia and Germany to be valid until 1890, declaring that if either Power were attneked- by a third Power, the other would observe benevolent neutrality. The Kaiser wrote to Nicky expressing his sorrow for the awful behaviour of Bismarck, which "though it is a coup aimed against mc personallj", nevertheless represents a breach of loyalty to your Government and casts a slur on the-memories of my grandfather and father. I have already instructed my Chancellor how to speak in Parliament. I hope you will be satisfied with the manner in which the whole treasonable affair is treated. I suppose Bismarck, .by his shameless treatment of mc in his Press, is trying to make people believe that I am still under English influence. It is to be trusted that clearer heads will begin to understand that I had reasons to send this unruly man, with his mean character, out of office. I place implicit faith in the hopes that nothing can chance between us since we arranged our line of action at Breslau." THE CRETAN AFFAIR. ' Writing in March, 1897, the Kaiser expressed gratitude for the loyal and statesmanlike way with which the Czar had grasped the Cretan affair. He felt justly proud that their views coincided, and he complimented Nicky that his demarche had rallied the' Powers, willingly or otherwise, to a common demonstration, which, he hoped, would result in the peace of Europe being undisturbed. "You have shown the world once more that if three great Empires jnarchent d'accord and are joined by

other Continental Powers, the rest of the world must follow us. The King of Greece must be clean mad if he does not etop his mad attempt to set the world afire by a light from his pipe." The Kaiser, in a" New Year's letter to the Czar in 1898, sent a drawing by himself symbol ising Russia and Germany as sentinels of the Yellow Sea for proclaiming the gospel of truth, right, and peace. He wrote: —"I drew the sketch during Christmas week under the blaze of the lights of a Christmas tree." In a letter dated March 28, 1898, the Kaiser congratulates the Czar on. the successful issue of his action at Fort Arthur. "We two," he wrote, "make a good pair of sentinels at the entrance of the Gulf of Pochili, who will be duly respected, especially by_the yellow ones. I think the way you soothed the feelings of the fretful Japanese by your masterly arrangement in Korea was a remarkably fine piece of diplomacy. Morally speaking you are now master of Peking." The Kaiser delicately hinted to the Czar to send him a pencilled line definitely to indicate the respective spheres of influence of Germany and Russia in China to prevent future misunderstandings. "The idea," he wrote, "which is beginning to be ventilated by the Press across the Channel that Chinese affairs will be decided by an international conference has been sharply repudiated here by mc, because I found that it was a masked attempt to tie your hands in the Far East, Where I think your relations are your own affair, not other people's."