THE KAISER'S DISILLUSIONS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 3 December 1914, Page 5

THE KAISER'S DISILLUSIONS

, Writing; from Loaiuon to the Svdnpv Morning Herald Sir Henry Lucy say? Ihe German Emperor has suffered vaned disillusions since, little more fS^fn 01*" °^ tlea^ertiy roiged m secret dmmg a periol PY coedmg 20 years. Wii £ the assfstanS of his General Staff h eC oSS V' t dJea^ hlm supreme \> 1 Lord, Ti-ith England, France and at his feet? But, as we Mve Wti taught, 'the best-lad .schemes of ince and men aano- a ft ■agtej.'. \Vaiiam has crumpfed "up in ail directions. He expected tS be •aight iju-ough Hanover. He knew he w « IW have.to figKt the Russians, but, remembering how easily the them he thought it would be time enough t« tackle them when he £5 dealt a crushing blow to France. He conndentiy counted upon the neutral! ity of England. At worst its armed interposition would not need the atv«rps. As for France, he recalled with pride how U years i<uT uZ armies levied en ma«£f Seltef .way oefore his grandfather' 4 troops Se snwflakes on the river. Every one of. these forecasts and Fiance and England! came to, 4 aid fiM 1?. 118. have Bro^ffht inS the u^nKs ox the Aisne. In r^npnto/i themselves, man for man, gun for gun ff thiJ /w w Pman army -' Jt looks as 1L 2 Almi«hty were getting tired of the enforced companionship of the German Emperor."