LETTERS TO CZAR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18234, 1 November 1933, Page 4

LETTERS TO CZAR

EX-KAISER AS YOUNG MAN RUSSIAN LEANINGS LONDON, Oct. 28 A Moscow magazine has published a series of letters which the cx-Kaisej (before he ascended the throne) wrote in ISM and 1885 to the Czar of Russia, following upon in invitation to attend the coming-of-age festivities in honor of the Czarevitch. Nicholas IT. In consequence of the visit, the ex-Kaiser became rabidly pro-Russian. ’Anxious to ingratiate himself wilh Alexander 111, he wrote letters telling him to be on guard against “my English uncles,'’ and ,adding. “My father is in the hands of my mother,-who causes him to soo everything through English spectacles.” Later the ex-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 said my head had been turned. In short, my clear cousin, the Prince of Bulgaria has'my mother and father in his pocket. Of the visit of King Edward AMI (when lio was Prince of Wales) to Berlin in 1885, the ex-Kaiser wrote to the Czar: “He is a false man and an intriguer. May Allah relegate hint 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 1885.

The ex-Kaiser wrote the letters when lie was about 25 years of age, and before ho became Emperor. His father, Frederick 111, died in ISBS.