ATTACK ON THE KAISER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12814, 13 July 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)

ATTACK ON THE KAISER.

"SOME SILENT BALMORAL '';•■-■. CASTLE." ■ .".' ' BERLIN, May 22. Tlie Imperial' Chancellor to-day made, another defence of the. Kaiser's threat to (smash the Constitution of AlsaceLorraine and incorporate it with Prussia. It, was the last day of the session, and the Socialists a again took the opportunity of making an attack on the Emperor. Herr Ledebour made a speech of unparalleled violence, stating that if an English King had said what the Kaiser did the nation would have either smashed his throne or confined him m soma silent Balmoral Castle,\as the Turks did Abdul Hamid. '.-..■! The comparison between the Kaiser and the fallen. Sultan* aroused cries, of indignation, and President Kaempf called the speaker to order. Herr Ledebour, however, continued his speech unmoved. "I hope," he declared, "that the Germans^ may soon have as strong a sense of national honor, as Englishmen.* Herr Schultz, of the Conservativa par ty, followed with a slashing exposure of --the', methods of Socialism, which he said were intended merely to discredit the person of the Kaiser. A dignified reply to the debate was made by the Imperial Chancellor. "You say I had some difficulty m, defending the Kaiser's words," he declared. • "I have never had the slightest difficulty m defending my master, and" all Germany backs me when I defend him against tha attacks of the Socialists," he continued, amid cheers. .''■•"' "Germany will not have, the Sooialist yoke, and the people will give the Socialists their reply to their constant attack* on the Kaiser and the empire." Enthusiastic cheers greeted the Chancellor's declaration from all parties except the Socialists, who laughed scornfully. ■