TRUE CHARACTER CF EX-KAISER

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 63, 24 October 1928, Page 5

TRUE CHARACTER CF EX-KAISER

revealed in MOTHER’S LETTERS

TREACHERY AND WANT OF RESPECT.

DOCUMENTS SMUGGLED INTO ENG LANE .

(Received 9.15 a.mj

IiONDON, Oct. 23

Sir Frederick Ponsonhy h ( as edited letters of the Empress Frederick of Germany .which he himself smuggled into England in response to her dying request in 1901.

She said: “I! don’t want a soul to know, certainly not Willie” (meaning the ex-Kaiser). The letters reveal Wilhelm as a man who opposed, ignored! and forsook his mother. She wpote to Queen Victoria of his “Treachey, want of respect to his father and insolence to me.” MORE THAN HORRIFIED. On another occasion referring to a strike of miners, she wrote.; “I am more than horrified at Williams’ speech in which he told me that it they had anything to do with the Social Democrats he would' have them all shot down. I think such .words in the mouth of a Sovereign and to young and inexperienced a man arc most brutal arid unbecoming.”—Australian Press Association.