KAISER AND REICHSTAG.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15558, 16 March 1914, Page 9

KAISER AND REICHSTAG.

ECnO OF THE ZABERN AFFAIR.

[(ROM OfR OWV CORRESPONDENT.]

Ix)MX)N, February 4. Wins- the Kaiser is not genial his people are sad, for he is essentially a genial man when he is glad. The other day he rerfiwl birthday congratulations at Court, ai.l he entered fully into the spirit of lit" thing in hia characteristic manner. When Lift! presidents of both Houses of 1 Tiu.---.ian Diet were presented to him 1,. t.iiook hands warmly, and talked in tl.c most cordial mannc; for Prussia is a!» •'. loyal to the Kaiser. But when there uime to him the President of the Reich- .-,,,_, with his deputy, the brow of the V i?-er clouded, and ho did not shake |..u:,i< with them. The members of the I'.- ii hsta" were pained, but they knew why it was In their own minds they ... :" not doubt that it was due to the ui.)ii'.\ things that have been said in the I nular chamber during the last few v.ilis .Tiling the overbearing conduct oi the army at Zabern. When surh (■ linn were said the. Ministry and the I '.c\ eminent -upportern merely absented tln.-nselves from the Chamber, for, after a! ! it dors not matter what the German Parliament f-ayji. This is onlv anni-ber li. ( ident to indicate that the Kaiser did let disapprove of the conduct of tn"b < Hi era at Zabern so much as was thought. lb explains, as regards the Court incident, that the Prussian officials are his f.i wnal friends, whereas the representatives of the Reichstag are not.