“FILLED WITH FURY”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10725, 24 October 1928, Page 5

“FILLED WITH FURY ”

EX-CROWN PRINCE’S CONFES-

SION

WOULD HAVE STOPPED ABDICATION WITH BLOOD

BITTER ATTACK ON DAY LEADERS f

KNEW NOTHING OF PLANS UNTIL TOO LATE

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(Timcn Cables.) (Received Oct. 23, 5.5 p.m.)

LONDON, Oct. 22

The Berlin correspondent of the Times states: ‘‘What the Crown Prince would have done to prevent his father’s abdication is revealed in a letter by himself written in August 1919, and published in the Wcltam Montag, in which he attacks a number of leading figures in presentday Germany. Wilhelm says he knew nothing of what was going on until he discovered that the so-called assembly of officers had warned the Kaiser that the troops were disloyal. “Miy Storm Regiment only needed a call to defend the Kaiser with blood”, ho said, ‘‘and | am still filled with quivering fury to think of it” Wilhelm particularly attacks Prince Max, the last Imperial Chancellor, as a muddled and fcable Utcpist and an untrustworthy coward who only fought behind the front, and did not even write his own famous speeches. According to Wilhelm, Croner, the present Reichswehr Minister was another prime mover in a put-up job and by failing to consult the Kaiser he deserved court-martialling. President Hindenburg, and Colonel tVleye, the present Chief of Staff, are likewise assailed for giving the assembled officelrs a black account of the conditions at the Front. “If His Majesty had spoken to them like Frederick the Great they would all have rallied round him. When I left the Kaiser he was determined to stand fast. I wanted to expel the whole revolutionary crew.”

Significantly, Wilhelm praises Lucfenderff, whose removal was the beginning of thd end. “He would never have been a party to a shameless game”, he said. Wilhelm, however, admits Germany could not have won.