SPEECHES WORRY PEOPLE.
STRANGE EXHORTATIONS,
Borlin, April 6.
The Kaiser’s recent speeches show him to be suffering one of his periodic attacks of cerebral excitement. Strong influences have been brought to bear to induce him to go on a yachting trip to Norway until the effects blow over.
Wilhelm looks ill and worn. He is extremely restless, brooding perpetually and startling his entourage by breaking out into wild tirades against his supposed enemies.
It is related that the Kaiser directed the captain of the guard to kneel before him, holding up the hilt of the sword as a symbol of the cross, and swear that he would slay his own brother to defend the Emperor.
The Kaiser’s excitement is traced to the feeling aroused by hostile criticisms of his friendliness for England. He constantly expresses his resolve to make the German people accept his foreign policy. The Russian disturbances prompted him to send even more exalted despatches to the Czar than to the Sultan, but the Czar suppressed them. The Kaiser has just presented two stained-glass windows to a blind, asylum. One represents the Kaiser as a mediaeval knight, helmet on head and naked sword in one hand, a model asylum in the other. The other window presents the Kaiscrin as St. Elizabeth, with miraculous roses in her hand. a.
The Kaiser is delighted with his first appearance in stained glass. He has ordered several other windows showing him in various other saintly poses. Emperor William made an address to several companies of the first Guard Regiment at Eotsdam. Concerning its tenor nothing is known, as all civilians were rigidly excluded from the scene. The entire German press is still greatly excited over the Emperor’s recent utterances.
The Cologne Volks-Zeitung says his speech to the Emperor Alexander Grenadier Regiment on its installation in new barracks near the palace, calling the .men his lifeguards, has been received everywhere with dismay and amazement. But sadder still is the fact that the Emperor had the regiment’s barracks built close to the castle, which shows tlia’t he meant what he said.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 111, 20 May 1901, Page 1
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