KAISER FEELS DEATH TREMOR

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13996, 28 January 1916, Page 2

KAISER FEELS DEATH TREMOR

FORMER, • FRENCH PREMIER'S

MESSAGE.

■In a ■special Christmas Day message sent by cablegram to the leading news-, paper of California,,MV*Georges Cle-mencca-u, the 'farmer .Premier of France, said :-- , ; : ... . "The Teuton.; and the Bulgarians, seconded, in an underhanded way i by King Constantine,- are going i© hurl themselves soon upon Salonica. "They can be sure of getting a suit-; able' reception .from General San-ail's' men, "but! wquldj rather -s.ee French brav^n^se^y^y^^plßyiOd UliaAi, celebratedfin'.dLtlif/ranibicsw;!;•,•:'' •'-■.'■' \ J

• t*T3]G solo question'confronting.; us is what strategical advantages are we going to-obtaiir-'at-Salonioa. The persons most, convinced of the efficacy -of onr Balkan policy cannot say that we are. to gain .anyt'liip.g there ~unlesss we send a great many more troops, yei 1 don't: believe that any-chief wouHl i<iccept the .responsibility of weakening our front in' France just when the. whole" of th<> European Press is'announcing a supreme German effort to break through

"The Ivaiser is feeling the first death tremors. While the Teuton appeals for peace go unechoed, the German peoples are asking themselves whether they are not going to smash themselves, against an aggregation of force-which their 'junkers' and professors havestupidly underrated.

"The wastage in effectives, the street riots in Berlin, and the growing misery caused ■by the scientific} '■ apportionment of food all attest that the Kaiser feel,* the*rod of "domination 'shaking in his ■hand;. ~..■,-.- ~■ ..■•;■• .^. ■■...-■•-• ■■■ .:'- •■' ;'-'.': :■ ..

"Where can he deliver his supreme blow? His Russian advance has led only to exhaustion of his effectives.

"Even Count Tisza- cannot check ihe peace- clamour which is sweeping over Austria-Hungary, which has been torn asunder by misfortunes.

"The campaigns in the East—^le-so-potamia ftnd Egypt —'are ,Py rrbiian dreams. Phantasmagoria of deliricxis imagination create armies.

- "But now the supremo opportunity arrives. It is to try to inarch to Paris a {if in ironi 'lie line the Germans have held for sixteen months despite our efforts, and whoso most salient point toward the capital is Nbyon. It may be only an empty threat, hut who in France1 will da<re to ignore it; who will dare to weaken oiir'western front.lby. a single French troop or a single gun?"