KAISER A DYING MAN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 25 May 1917, Page 8

KAISER A DYING MAN.

"END WITHIN THE NEXT FEW

MONTHS EXPECTED,"

The following sensational statements by its Washington correspondent appear in ,a recent issue of the London Morning Post regarding the doom of the Kaiser and his dynasty:

"A report has reached me that the German Emperor is' fatally ill with Bright's disease. The news comes to me through American financial sources having close connections with important German bankers in this country on most intimate terms with the German Government. The majority of cases of Bright's disease, as every medical man knows, are superinduced by worry and long-continued depression, the\ mental , condition, for some unknown reason, directly affecting the vital organs concerned. The Emperor, according to my informant, has-for some months past been in the depths of depression. The efforts made by his physicians and entourage to rally him have. been unsuccessful, and the disease ha* so completely fastened itself upon him that .his recovery is impossible, and his death within a few months is to be expected. ''With his death, according to the German bankers, the House of Hohenzollern will lose the throne of Germany, as the Crown Prince is known to be a moral degenerate, and the German people will not accept him as their Sovereign. Either Germany will become a Republic or a limited Constitutional Monarchy^ the real power being exercised by Parliament elected by universal franchise. It is the opinion of the German bankers, knowing the conditions existing in Germany and the temperament of the German people, that unless there should be a sudden uprising, which they do not now anticipate, a Constitutional Monarchy rather than a Republic will be the outcome." '