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Mataura Ensign, 2 October 1914, Page 5

They pay there : s no man in CJenna-nv harrier to win for a new idea. His ideals of art and music and literature arc dr-.crilv-d as at least three generations behind liis time. "When you asked .'•itch critics how it is that Ccrman.y under him grew great and powerful—not as great and powerful, 1 fear, as the most .studious observer.; among us thought—you would ':•'.• told that the Eatliorlind had aspired irreatly and mounted high in spite of William II. — no; because of li'in. One of the Inost.velleme.nl r-ssnrancps dinned in bit ears in ante-bellum days in Berlin was that the Kaiser knew nothing of Austria's p'' : .in- to humiliate Servia. No more nbsurd .fiction was ever ucrpel rated. The KaNcr'p whole record banishes the 1 lion "lit to the re-.lm of tlv 'crofc-oue. He probably did not actually write the Note from acceptance of whieli even the self-re-spect of Servia reeled ; but lie was not "far'off when it. was formulated. William the Meddler could- not be an innocent bystander when things are done wh'Hi mean, t"hn eventual cV'inno; of his fleets for action and the liurling of 111-is legions at all and sundry.