BURIAL IN EXILE.
Ex-Kaiser Expresses Wish at Family Gathering. BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION. LOXDOX, January 28. A message from Doom states that the ex-Kaiser, wearing the uniform of a field-marshal, presided at a gala banquet in celebration of his 79th birthday. He was surrounded by his family, including the ex-Crown Prince, known during the war as '"Little Willie."
The Doom correspondent of the "Daily Herald" states that the exKaiser read his will to tlip gathering. He revealed that he wanted to lie buried in the grounds of his Doom house. Ho said he had designed his own gravestone and epitaph, and desired that Germany should not lie made to feel his deatli or be asked to mourn it. "I would dearly love to be buried at Potsdam beside my first wife," said Wilhelm, "but 1 am afraid the occasion would be used as a means of propaganda and might lead to demonstrations." The Crown Prince promised that his father's wishes should be carried out.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 24, 29 January 1938, Page 9
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