WILHELM’S PERFIDY EXPOSED
HOW HE KEPT HIS WORD. There can bo no doubt whatever now that the ex-Kaiser was wholly and entirely responsible for the Great War. If additional proof on this point were needed (which is not the case) it is supplied by the testimony of the Prince of Monaco. Wilheitn wished for the war—nav, more “he conducted it himself in all its ruthlessness and barbarity,” Such is, in brief, the statement of tire reigning Prince of Monaco, who before August, 1914, was a great admirer and personal friend of the ex-Kaiser. That friendship was severed however, in September, *1914, bv the Prince despatching: to the then Kaiser a telegram in which he told him bluntly what he thought of Germany's action in disturbing the peace of Europe. “ I shall never forget the fury,” said the Prince recently to a representative of the London Daily Mail,’ “in hia face and the hatred in his voice when in July, 1914, h e told me If they oblige me to make war world n. *ll see what it never dreamed of. - These words were hypocritical, because the Emperor could not protend that the war into which he declared himself driven "was not at that very time prepared for in. every detail 1 *
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Evening Star, Issue 17327, 15 April 1920, Page 7
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