THE HOHENZOLLERNS

Southland Times, Issue 19510, 9 May 1922, Page 5

THE HOHENZOLLERNS

CROWN PRINCE AND KAISER. AN UNFILIAL MEMOIR, (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (“The Times.”) LONDON, May 6. According to extracts from memoirs published in Berlin the Crown Prince draws a merciless picture of his father in the hour of final surrender almost literally declaring that the Kaiser was rather white about the gills and full of passionate excitement at the last conference with Hindenburg and other generals. He was wavering whether to fight to the last and march against the revolutionaries or to abdicate as Kaiser while remaining King of Prussia. He asked whether in the event of this decision the troops at the front would remain true to the Kaiser. General Schulenberg declared that they would keep their oatn and General Gromner shrugged his shoulders coldly, remarking : “Oaths to a war lord are only words, just an idea.” The Crown Prince cynically sums up that two different worlds—ancient and modern —were here opposed and nothing could bridge the gulf. The Time’s Berlin correspondent states that from his retirement at Doorn the Kaiser is launching prosecutions for lese majeste. He unsuccessfully asked the Berlin Foreign Office to proceed against Herr Sternheim, author of a satire entitled “Lidusna, the Kaiser’s Charger,” wherin a horse is supposed to record the memoirs of the Czar, the Kaiser and King Edward VII., all of whom rode him. The Kaiser has also instructed his lawyers to intervene in the pro-, duction of Ludwig’s play dealing with the dismissal of Bismarck.