KAISER WILHELM.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 35207, 18 May 1918, Page 4

KAISER WILHELM.

WARNED OF GRAVE DISASTER. "SHAME AND DISHONOUR" OF THE FATHERLAND. Prince Maximilian, the amiable heir to the throne of Bat|,en, who incurred tho grave displeasure of the Kaiser in January, 1917, by protest ing -publicly against the brutality of tho Huns, still has hopes, it appears, of saving "Germany's good name. ,. Some two months ago he was engaged in putting forward a peace "feeler" of a rather curious kind, ami ho has now again given a mysterious interview to the notorioift Dr. Mantler. the director of the still more notorious "Wolff Bureau.

Princo Max urges, tragically late in the day, that Germany should adopt "an honest, Christian spirit." Thus: "The spirit of mutual destruction that prevails anions; the belligerent, nations is a moral infection which, if it is not to spread to every corner of the earth, must be crushed without delay. Germany must declaro that she recognises the rights of other ncol>l cs. and that she is determined to satisfy thoso rights.-- It is not within our own borders solely that our name should have a good sound. Germany may not risk losing her moral nnsition in the world. If she did all her victories would brinnr her but shame, dishonour,- and., finally, disintekratiou and death. All would bo won ff only the nations had crone so far as to be ready to talk with o"o another without any claims to infallibility, but vather in an honest Christian spirit. Only he who fears that, negotiations would expose the impurity of his own and the rmrity of the enemy demand* can shun a conference as a guilty '•••>'- minnl slums rnstioe. nnd on him w-'H lie thp guilt if the hell of last year be let loose in the world afresh."