FATE OF THE KAISER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3966, 26 June 1915, Page 7

FATE OF THE KAISER.

SUPPOSING HE IS CAPTURED. YVHAT SHALL YYE DO YYMTH HIM r i Seers have been telling us that-, according t-o the horoscope which lias been cast, the war is to come to an early end; while the Kaiser, threatened by the sword, is to die, either hanged or suffocated. In the meantime, it may not be uninteresting to discuss penalties which could actually be meted out to the ‘‘bad boy of Europe” in the event of his falling into our hands; as Napoleon did in 1814.

Napoleon, whose stupendous military genius was so greatly feared by the Allied Powers that they declined to allow him' to"remain at large, was imprisoned first at Elba, and then at St. Helena. Not only was his military genius feared, but lie was regarded by oilier monarelis of Europe as a usurper, and was finally imprisoned by tliem at St. Helena to get the Bourbons back again in France, in order to settle the principle of divine light and to steady their own thrones.

The position of the Kaiser, however, who, as the London “‘Star’"_ remarks, is a verv “pewter Napoleon, ’ is quite different. He is a Sovereign by divine right, and so long as the Prussian people want him as their King, neither the Allies nor anybody else can find the slightest legal or moral justification for dethroning him or imprisoning him at St. Helena or anywhere else. In the event of our capturing the Kaiser, he would be a prisoner so long as the war lasted, as Napoleon 111. was after his surrender at Sedan m September, ISTOj but immediately the war was over Napoleon 111. was released from the Castle WiLhelmshohe. near Kassel, where he had been so-... eluded. It is quite within the bounds of possibility that the Germans will force tho. Kaiser from the throne, as the' French did Napoleon 111., for it scorns probable, among other things, that the kingdoms of Bavaria and Hanover "will secede from the Germanic Federation ; Poland will he annexed by Russia, Alsace-Lorraine wall be returned to France, Schleswig-Holstein will be retransferred to Denmark, and the Kaiser will automatically cease to be Emperor, because he will liavo no* Empire, and will be left as King of Prussia as long as the Prussians want him. ' ~