KAISER’S POWER DECLINING

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9630, 10 April 1917, Page 3

KAISER’S POWER DECLINING

TROOPS FAIL TO CHEER HUNS. “The situation for the Kaiser grows worse daily. Nothing is more noticeable and obvious, not only to him, but to all his entourage, than his loss of popularity . with the army. There have been occasions when the Emperor has been received by the troops, paraded before him at headquarters prior to their departure for the fighting-lino, in absolute silence instead of the spontaneous cheers that in the early days of the war would always Erect, him on such occasions. On one occasion not long since a general commanding a division gave orders to the troops to cheer directly the Emperor came on the par-ade-ground. The troops obeyed the order reluctantly and with a half-hearted-ness that was all the more noticeable on account of the tremendous and sponaneous cheers they- accorded to Hindenburg when ho arrived shortly afterwards. So furious was the Kaiser at this that ho declined to utter more than a few words to the troops, and then rode off. bidding Hindenburg to accompany him. Hindenburg was also to have addressed the troops, but the Kaiser would not permit him. to do so.” Tins extract i s from a remarkable interview accorded by a neutral to a London journalist.