KAISER AND HIS STAFF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16895, 6 July 1918, Page 8

KAISER AND HIS STAFF.

RUMOURED QUARRELS. TH2 Zurich correspondent of the Para Temps quotes an. influential personage as stating that the recent strikes in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany were organised as a protest against the projected offensive. The workors shrank from the further sacrifices of life, and insisted that the offensive should be regarded as a means to peace, and should not be another fruitless episode. • The personage quoted adds that the German food situation is not desperate, but the wcrkera were disturbed by the condition:) of the Russian peace, antics* naling an influx of cheap labour from Lithuania, Courland, and Poland. It is aho reported that a violent scene occurred between .'he Kaiser and his head, ouarters staff. General von LuJendorff FDoke so violently that the Kaiser, pale with passion, banged the table, and cried, "Are you the Emperor or am I?" Von Ludendorff replied, " I am only a soldier. 1 want peace, and I believe I can obtain it with thi3 offensive." ( Tho Kaiser, who has been deeply impressed by the devastation in the battle ores, remarked to von Ludendorff, " How clad we should bo that our country has been spared such terrible things. Wo have kept the fighting outside the frontiers l of Germany, because we built up our . armaments beforehand. The necessity for « armairwmtg will change only when mankind | changes." ■