KAISER'S '-HONOR."

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KAISER'S '-HONOR."

DISHED BY THE JUNKERS OVER

FUTURE OF POLAND

PARIS, Nov. 28. "Polybe" writes as follows in the Figaro *. — On November 3 last the German Emperor and the Emperor of Austria, after painful negotiations, agreed that a Hapsburg should havo Poland and that a Hoheuzollern should be declared Duke bf Lithuania and Grand Duke ot Courland.

As soon as- this became, known the Pan-Germans, the military caste, and the Junkers, were very angry, and declared that Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and Mackensen had not conquered Poland in order to make a present of it to Austria. The Emperor summoned the Crown Council and sent for General yon Beseler. the Governor of Poland, who asserted that not to unite Poland with the German Empire would be treason. Ludendorff and Hindenburg spoke in the same sense.

The Kaiser protested that his honor was pledged with the Emperor of Austria, but ultimately he was over-rid-den, and Baron Kuhlmann urged Count Czernin to postpone until after the war the distribution of the Russian spoils. The Emperor Karl accepted this decision with acute bitterness.