THE KAISER'S APPEARANCE.
It is not easy to accurately deecriW William 11., unless one has seen him at close quarters in civilian attire. Atv first glance your idea of an heroic William falls to the ground. He fedistinctly below the average heights. and quite typical of the beer-drinkinEW. sausage-eating German, rather thttßthc, knightly cavalier. His left aim is ten inches shorter than his rights a»d is partially paralysed. The doKormitv strikes the eye unpleasantly, though one cannot withhold a certain: admiration for the energy which hsa enabled him to become a good shotnnd a r>2ssable rider, in spite of thistremendous, handicap. The Kaiser's mental make-up is a mixture of hluff^' c-oarse brutality, lack of real courage. intelligence, and a capacity for quick ""ybsorption of superficial facts, religions. .fanatWsm and megalomania (says Albert Dorrington, in writing from Loadon to the Auckland Star).
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 2 December 1914, Page 5
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141THE KAISER'S APPEARANCE. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 2 December 1914, Page 5
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