KAISER'S FALL FROM POPULARITY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 146, 22 June 1915, Page 7

KAISER'S FALL FROM POPULARITY

INEXPERT MEDDLER IN MILITARY MATTERS CROWN PRINCE DELIBERATELY INVITING CRITICISM (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) {Received June 22, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 21st June. A' neutral traveller in Germany describes the Kaiser's early fall from popularity. It is whispered that the failure of the advance on Paris was clue to tho l^aiser's interference with the General Staff, and compelling Field-Marshal yon Moltlce to re<si£n. .'.,., . . , •„ The Kais«i-'s portrait, exhibited at a cinema hall, was not received with the sarno applause us other leaders of the war. The' people regard the Kaiser as an inexpert meddler in military matters. The Crown Prince, as the victor of Longwy, was immensely popular. The Kaiser quickly changed his tactics, and vanished from the scene. He made no more speeches, and it was quietly announced that he was no longer interfering in the war. His whereabouts is a secret; he is constantly flitting from the different theatres of war, until the figure of the Emperor became occult and mysterious- He was seen everywhere at once, and became the symbol of the unity of tho people. He is now Tegarded as^exercising his true functions as a modern Sovereign, and lias assumed Imperial dignity, paving the way for what the Geimans proudly believe to be the "new destiny." The gossip of the Crown Prince's escapades in France and elaowhere is

of his position. He is held mainly responsible for the defeat' at the Marne. It appears that the Prince is deliberately inviting criticism. He was absent from the baptism of his only daughter.