KAISER ANGRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 259, 1 November 1928, Page 7

KAISER ANGRY.

PUBLICATION OF LETTERS

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.; LONDON, October 31.

On the eve of the publication of the letters of the Empress Frederick, Sir Frederick I'onsonbv received a letter from the ex-Kaiser through a third party demanding that he should not publish them and hinted that the letters were stolen from Friedriehshof. Sir Frederick replied that he intended to publish the fact, and this so incensed the Kaiser that he threatened to proceed under International Law to have them suppressed. GIVEN BY EMPRESS. WILHELM HOODWINKED. ~t (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 12 noon.) LONDON, October 31. Sir Frederick Ponsonby, in reply to the ex-Kaiser, stated that the letters written by the Empress of Germany, in which Wilhelm was severely reprimanded, were given him personally by the Empress. It appears that while Sir Frederick was staying at Friedriehshof as Equerry-in-Waitinj» to King Edward the Empress expressed the wish that he should ta v e the letters to England. They were removed from the castle in two boxes labelled "books and china with care," under the nose of the ex-Kaiser while he was farewelling Sir Frederick Ponsonby. " The letters were missed after the death of the Empress and a hue and cry was raised as the ex-Kaiser was most anxious to recover them, but their whereabouts remained a secret until now.