LETTERS TO CZAR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 288, 2 November 1933, Page 8

LETTERS TO CZAR.

EX-KAISER AS YOUNG MAN. A Moscow magazine has published a series of letters which tire ex-Kaiser (before he ascended the throne) wrote in 1884 and 1885 to the Czar of Russia, following upon -an invitation to attend the coming-of-age festivities in honour of the Czarevitch, Nicholas 11. In consequence of the visit, the ex-Kaiser became rapibly pro-Russian. Anxious to ingratiate himself with Alexander 111, he wrote letters telling him to be on guard against “my English uncles,” and adding, “My father is in the hands of my mother, who causes him to see everything through English spectacles.” Later the ex-Kaiser wrote, with regard to friction between Bulgaria aud Russia: “Papa poured abuse on your Government and called it lying and traitorous. In short, there is not an ugly adjective he did not use to paint you black. He called me Russified, and said my head had been turned. In short, my dear cousin, the Prince of Bulgaria has my mother and father in his pocket.” Of the visit of King Edward VII (when lie was Prince of Wales) to Berlin in 1885, the ex-Kaiser wrote to the Czar: “He is a false man and an intriguer. May Allah relegate him to the nether regions.” The letters reveal that Wilhelm did a good deal of spying on behalf of Russia, passing on intimate conversations with the British military attache, including the names of Indian and English regiments concentrating at Rawalpindi (India) in 1885. The ex-Kaiser wrote the letters when he was about 25 years of age, and before he became Emperor. His father, Friedrich 111, died in 1888.