LETTERS TO TSAR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21638, 2 November 1933, Page 10

LETTERS TO TSAR

EX-KAISER WILHELM ANTI-BRITISH LEANINGS LONDON, Oct. 2-3 A Moscow magazine has published a series of letters which the ex-Kaiser (before, he ascended the throne), wrote in 1881 and 1885 to the Tsar of Russia, following upon an invitation to attend the eoming-of-age festivities in honour of the Tsarevitch, Nicholas 11. hn consequence of the visit, the ex-Kaiser became rabidly pro-Russian. Anxious to ingratiate himself with Alexander IJI., he wrote letters telling him to bo 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." Eater the ox-Kaiser wrote, with regard to friction between Bulgaria and 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 tsaid my head had been turned. In short, my dear cousin, the Prince of Bulgaria lias my mother and father in his pocket." Of the visit of King Edward VII. "(when he was Prince of Wales) to Berlin in 18W, the ex-Kaiscr wrote to the Tsar:' "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 188.3. The ex-Kaiser wrote the letters when he was about 25 years of age. His father, Friedrich 111., died in 1888.