WAR’S LEADERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 800, 1 September 1923, Page 2

WAR’S LEADERS.

IN HUMBLE POSTS

TEN MILLION CRIPPLED MEN

FORMER RULERS IN STRANGE

PLACES.

A little over nine years ago the storm of the world war broke 1 upon Europe. In France, Belgium, Germany and Russia crowded troop trams, long lines of infantry, batteries of artillery and creaking supply trains were pouring towards threatened frontiers. .-ii On August 4 Germany invaded France at Cirey; Russians crossed the German frontier. To-day 10,000.000 crippled men throughout the world remain as testimony to the mad holocaust'that followed. But what of the captains and the kings—the great figures who flamed as leaders before tho world in war days? Correspondents in Europe have surveyed world capitals seeking the great of yesterday. They have found them in strange places. A few still hold high offices; many are disgraced, outcasts or exiles. REPORTS OP ACTIVITIES. Here are reports of their varied activity;— Alexander Kerensky, who for a bnet Span of days ruled, amid terror and revolution, Russia’s people, is editing a tiny newspaper in Prague. Once he slept in the bed of the Czar; to-day his homo is an 1 attic above the Danube. General Wrangel, who led the forlorn hope of his “white” army in fierce fighting as he was beaten back upon the Crimea, is camping out in an old French chateau at Faugere. He is penniless, doing chores to keep his family in food. Grand Duke Alexander, brother of the late Czar, is writing pieces for a magazine, in which he explains : that women of the world must unite to save civilisation. Marshal Foch, commander of the Allied . armies, is engaged in winning allies for Franco. Ho has just returned from a trip to Poland and Czechoslovakia.

Rene Viviani, whose voice once roused the world to fight for France, is quietly practising law. “TIGER” "WRITES BOOKS. Georges Clemenceau, “The Tiger,” planned to spend the ninth anniversary of the war working on a, book of philosophy he expects to finish in fifteen years. King Constantino was greeted with shouts of the multitude when he rode into Athens in war days. He is dead, in dethroned .exile, of a broken heart. Young King Karl of Austria is dead, an exile also. Czar Nicholas, “the little white father,” lies murdered, in an unknown grave. ... Sultan Mehmed VL, another on his Stamboul throne, is a refuge in Mecca, having fled from his kingdom. Empress Zita sat beside Karl upon the throne of Austria-Hungary. She is to-day in Geneva, attempting to pawn the last of her jewels. Mr Bonar Law, sick and broken, has been forced to retire as Premier of England. Mr - Lloyd George, “the Welsh wizard,” is to-day an ordinary member of Parliament. SAWS WOOD AT DOORN. Kaiser Wilhelm 11. saws wood at Doom, Holland. Perhaps he still dreams of empire. The Crown Prince; one-time dashing general, fishes and helps the village blacksmith on the lonely sand dunes of Wiorengen, in Holland, far from the glories of Unter den Linden and the Kaiserhof Hotel. Premier Nitti, of Italy, mourns the loss of his home, which was burned by Fascist!, who threatened his life as a betrayer of his country. Benito Mussolini, who fought in the trenches while Nitti roared in Home, now fills his office with the black shirt legionaires. Admiral Beatty, of the North Sea Fleet, is to-day First Sea Lord of the Admiralty. Admiral Jellicoe, the other victor of Jutland, is now GovernorGeneral of New Zealand. Field Marshal Haig works on behalf of the'ex-soldier organisations, and is a director of the Haig and Haig whisky firm. IS GOVERNOR-GENERAL. Lord Byng, of Vimy, is GovernorGeneral of Canada. Field Marshal Viscount Allenby—Allenby of Jerusalem—is now Governor-General of Egypt. Von Hindenburg, war lord of Germany, lives quietly at Hanover, now and again attending demonstrations of the Monarchist party. Ludendorff owns a quiet villa outside of Munich, where many visitors come and go. He writes a' bit. Ludendorff is one of the big figures behind the scenes in the Bavarian Fascisti movement. 1

Captain Paul Koenig, who brought the “Deutschland” across the Atlantic, has done well, being a director of the North German Lloyd Line. Von Tirpitz has picked Baden for his home; von Mackensen, terror of Serbia', lives in East Prussia. The Kaiser’s sons, other than the exiled Crown Prince, live among the past glories of Potsdam.