KAISER SAYS HE IS HARD UP.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1922, Page 19

KAISER SAYS HE IS HARD UP.

The ex-Kaiser Wilhelm mournfully announces that he has scarcely enough money to obtain the ordinary necessaries of life.

Tbe North Berlin branch of the Society of German War Widows. Orphans and Disabled Soldiers recently wrote to the exile of Doom, pointing out its serious financial position, and asking for a subscription towards a dinner "for children of very poorest war victims."

In reply the following was received from Doom:—

"His Majesty the Kaiser has learned with regret of the financial straits into which the war widows, orphans, and disabled have fallen. Money at his Majesty's command for subscriptions to charities, however, has long been exhausted. Economic and financial conditions prevailing at present are

simply paralj-sing. Only li Dutch florins are received in exchange for every 100 marks, and owing to the high prices ruling In Holland the necessaries of life can scarcely be obtained. By his Majesty's command, a picture postcard of his Majesty is enclosed."

Wilhelm has already received nearly a hundred million marks from Germany, besides much valuable property, including gold and silver plate by the hundreds of pieces. He had money to buy a big residence, and he runs an expensive household.

He has always sufficient ready cash to send long telegrams of thanks to every reactionary person or society with nothing better to do than telegraph fulsome wishes to Doom on the occasion of his birthday, and other occasions; but for the poorest child victims of his war he has nothing but a picture postcard of the pre-Revolutlon Kaiser—the picture was of the War Lord in pickelhaube and fierce, upturned moustache.