GERMAN MONARCHISTS.
RESTORATION PLOT RUMOURS DUTCH DISCLAIM KNOWLEDGE Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. CReod. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 18. A message from Amsterdam states that the Netherlands Government denies all knowledge of a German monarchmt plot. On the other hand, the Strasbourg correspondent of the Paris Matin asserts that the Netherlands Government has in its possession papers -which prove a design by the Hohenzollerns to bring off a coup d'etat. The idea is to smuggle the exCrown Prince into Germany, so that he may enter Berlin at the bead of a force of troops loyal to the old regime. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that the Monarchists in the capital celebrated with much ostentation the fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of the old German Empire. The Conservative newspapers are giving extravagant eulogies of the " good old days " of the Hohenzollerns. A colonel, addressing a meeting of officers, declared that Germany's greatest epoch was only beginning. The time had arrived for a national state embracing all the German-speaking peoples of Europe ruled by a Hohenzollern. A GREY OLD MAN. EX-KAISER IN EXILE. LONDON. Jan. 8. Lady Norah Bentinck, a niece of Count Bentinck, writing in the Weekly Dispatch, states that Count Bentinck originally agreed to receive the former Kaiser at Amerongen at the urgent request of the Dutch Foreign Office, until a suitable lodging could be found. Wilhelm's first words on crossing the moat bridge of the castk were, " Nov/, give me a cup of real, good English tea." During a long stay he impressed everybody as being greatly cnanged. There were no signs of the old war lord. To-day he is a grey man, with grey dress, face, and hair, steely eyes, a short and s °ft white beard, and a drooping moustache. His swash-buckling has vanished, and he is simple, benign, elderly, and unobtrusive. Sometimes, he 6hows symptoms of extreme tension. He no longer laughs, but sometimes smiles. He likes to come and go unnoticed, and never leaves the former Kaiserin for long. He recently expressed his viewpoint thus : " The world says I am mad. If it knew the tremendous difficulties I have had tc contend with it would perhaps be surprised that I am still at all sane."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIVIII, Issue 17684, 20 January 1921, Page 7
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GERMAN MONARCHISTS.
New Zealand Herald, Volume LIVIII, Issue 17684, 20 January 1921, Page 7
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