THE HOHENZOLLERNS

Northern Advocate, 24 January 1929, Page 5

THE HOHENZOLLERNS

EX-KAISER CASTIGATED

STRUTTING ARROGANCE

DESIGNATED A FRAUD

(Australian Press Association.) (Received 9 a.m.)

LONDON, January 22,

Almost on the eve of the ex-Kais-er’s 70th birthday a German .writer, Ilorr Herbert Eulcnborg, publishes some admirable biographical sketches under the title of “The Hohenzollerns. "

The author publicly brands Wilhelm as “the most brilliant fraud whr was ever wrapped in Royal ermine." Many hard .things have been said of the ex-Kaiser by his adversaries, but it has been left to a German to describe his character in words of ridicule, satire and contempt. Herr Eulcnborg says he alienated everyone in England by his upstart ways and by arrogantly and rudely competing with England in a futile endeavour to outdo her in the sphere which has been Britannia’s pride for centuries—namely, the Fleet.

The author describes the ex-Kais-er’s desertion of 101,S as an unworthy and dishonourable degradation from his rank in peace and should have involved his summary execution in time of war. Ho says that on that eternally ignominious November night Wilhelm shattered not only the dynasty, but the centuries-old tradition of the Prussian Army, which he had tricked for a quarter of a century. Herr Eulenberg quotes the words of Wilhelm when the war broke’ out: “Now we will thrash them." He describes these words as barbarous.