THE KAISER UNMASKED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1713, 2 January 1920, Page 5

THE KAISER UNMASKED.

LETTERS TO THE CZAR.

REVEAL HIS TRUE CHARACTER

FEARED KING EDWARD. By Eleotrio Telegraph.—Copyright. Australian N«w Zealand Cable Ajeooiation. Received January 2, 10.30 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 31. The Australian Press Association has secured the exclusive right to the publication, in Australasia, of the historic letters from the Kaiser.to the Czar oi Russia between 1894 and 1914. The Morning Post, which owns the exclusive rjzhts in Britain, is publishing many' xac similes of letters, which cover the period of the Boer and RussoJnpanese wars, Austria-Hungary's annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ■ind the Emperor's trip to Jerusalem :ind the Mediterranean.

The letters are of great political and diplomatic interest, as they form the keyto the Kaiser's tortuous and clumsy foreign policy in his effort to make Germany master of the world. They revenl a great German conspiracy primarily designed against Britain, but involving the humiliation ot R'issia and France, and constituting the en-it history of the causes leading to il'f world's war.

The correspondence throws many sidelights on the Kaiser's personal character, revealing extraordinary vanity, bad temper, love of rhetoric, the religious vein in his character, and his intense belief in his diplomatic finesse, which really consisted of bullying and flattery. The letters confirm what the world has suspected—that the Kaiser hated and feared his English uncle, Edward tho Seventh.