"WILHELM, COME BACK"

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 11 June 1919, Page 5

"WILHELM, COME BACK"

SOCIALIST PAPER'S INVITATION

ZIMMERMAN. VISITS EX-

KAESER

REFUSES TO BE INTERVIEWED

BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT LONDON, June 1 (delayed). The Times' Hague correspondent, says the Vorwaerts, publishes an article, headed "Wilhelm, Come Back," which discloses that the Pan-German League is moving in the national Prussian Assemblies to secure the return of ex-royalties, andT promising the Kaiser a safe and dignified residence. The Vorwaerts adds: "Wilhelm will save the situation. His course proved right. With him restored we see the Entente, as the result of the new German revolution, forced to re-cast the peace treaty ; and Wilhelm leading ue to glorious times." NEW YORK, June 2. A correspondent at Amerongen states that a party of Germans visited th 6 exKaiser, who walked in the castle grounds with the visitors, talking loudly. One of the visitors was be- ' lieved to be Herr Zimmerann, former Foreign Secretary. The correspondent adds that the full text of the Allied peace terms have reached the ex-Kaiser. NEW YORK, June 1 (delayed). j The Tribune's Amerongen correspondent, who accompanied a group of sight-seeing members of the United States army, states the troops caused consternation to the ex-Kaiser and entourage when they arrived in the vicinity of the castle. It was feared the American party was determined to see the Kaiser, even if foroe was necessary to reach him. The fact was that the correspondent merely sought to inj terview him through Count Bentinck. j The correspondent wrote a note to the Kaiser, asking him to express an opinion about the peace treaty, President Wilson's "fourteen points," and the Allied plan to bring him to trial. The note was conveyed to the former monarch by Count Bentinck. Th c exKaiser sent back an oral answer refusing to be seen or to express an opinI ion.

[Zimmermann was Foreign Secretary when the war began, and, with Admiral yon Tirpitz, Herr yon Bethmann Hollweg. and leading Pan-Germans, was largely, instrumental in forcing Austria to insist on her unreasonable demands upon Serbia.] t