EX-KAISER'S MEMOIRS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 142, 19 June 1922, Page 7

EX-KAISER'S MEMOIRS

RECORD PRICE' PAID

BUT NOT ENOUGH FOR THE

AUTHOR.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN.- NEW ZEALAND CAPLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 17th June. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Chronicle states : "Though, tlio prico paid for tho ex-Kaiser's memoirs is ai record figure, it is only a quarter of what the royal exile wanted. An American syndicate paid 225,000 dollars for the world's rights, except in Germ'anspeaking countries.. The fact is that the ex-Kaiser is two years too late. The failure of the Crown Prince's book, for which 30,000 dollars was paid, emphasises- that fact. If carefully invested:, tho ex-Kaiser's 225,000 dollars will bring in !i£2BOO annually, but the ex-Kaiser is living at the rate of £10,000 a year, and; is in financial straits. His poverty is forcing him to press for a . niittanc© from the Prussian Government, from which he has already . received sixty million marks. The large, price paidl for the bo<>k raises the question of taxes that Wilhelm must pay to.the Prussian Government. Thus far he has paid no taxes.

"The ex-Ka-Iser's book was written by Eugene Zimmerman, the fire-eating leader-writer of the Lokalanzieger. It will bo interesting, but not sensational, as it has been carefully .edited and reeditod'. It covers the "period from Bismarck's dismissal to the world war."