THE EX – KAISER

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 January 1927, Page 5

THE EX - KAISER

BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION.

FAMILY CIRCLE AT DOORN INTEREST IN MUSSOLINI. oV OAiUiJB— PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT. Received 9.50 a.m. to-day. BERLIN, Jan. 28. Considerable pomp surounded the ex-Kaiser's sixtj-eignth birthday celebration at Doom, at which the exCiown Prince unexpectedly arrived completing the family circle, which included his daughter and his brother. Enormous floral tributes, far surpassing the previous year’s, have arrived, together with sheaves of telegrams from Germany. The ex-Kaiser’s chief topic at present is Mussolini, whose every move lie is eagerly following. . , . Most of his mornings are spent in u'ood-chopping. Half-past three is known as the “ex-Kaiser’s hour,” when he holds receptions of important people from Germany. He occasionally walks to the village, patronising the villagers, to whom he speaks in bad Dutch. He always enters and leaves by a large iron gate, on which a big “W,” surmounted by an immense imperial crown. German Monarchist papers devote great space to the congratulations, together with calls for a return.