THE KAISER'S INTERVIEWED.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15044, 11 April 1919, Page 5

THE KAISER'S INTERVIEWED.

A REMARKABLE STATEMENT,

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

, (Received April 10, 7 p.m.) London, April 31. Mr Harold Begbie, the "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Amerongen, discloses intimate details of the Kaiser s exile and personal view of the war.. Mr Begbie says the Kaiser is entirely'im-1 penitent. He declares that he strove harder than any man in the world to win the war, and laughs at the idea of | being tried. There is no power on earth that can try him. He would destroy himself if he thought he would be arraigned before an international tribunal, j because such an ordeal would be insaf ferable. He said: "Only God Knows how I strove at my own peril and the peril of, my throne to avert the calamity." ' Replying to a question about German plots, the Kaiser points out that German manufacturers in 1914, with the War Minister's consent, supplied Russia with 3000 machine guns, half a million rifles, and four hundred million rounds of ammunition. He imperilled the throne by withstanding the generals' demands for mobilisation in the early days of the crisis. Germany was the last Power on the mainland of Europe to mobilise. .

adds: "I did not want war,' Nicholas did not want war and George did not want war. The.rulers were all dead againstit: , The war was made by the diplomatists. The whole guilt rests with the .Russian5 Government. The rivalry in the Balkans' between Austria and Russia precipitated the conflict Germany was drawn in because she " was

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I pledged to defend Austria." The Entente were seized of his \ tremendous power, and aimed at the German Empire. Queen Victoria constantly warned him against Edward Vll.'s influence. She said VDo 'not have anything to do with him." The Kaiser protests his love for England The Kruger telegram was sent against his v/ishes owing to Prince Hohenlohe's insistence.

The Kaiser laughs at those who refer to him as an autocratic power. He was never allowed to know the generals' strategy or the true course of hostilities.

Ihe Kaiser hotly resents the charge of organised atrocities, and says the Lusitarua was a great blunder, but England's attempt to starve the women and children of Germany maddened the German people.

The Kaiser deplores Nurse Cavell's execution, which was ordered by a general who was the worse for drink. The Kaiser ordered tnat no more women be snot without nis personal sanction. He B*%lum. methods of occupation of oWfreg£ rds Bo^evism as a criminal alas for Freemasonry, and Freemasonry for nun is.Satamsm. His love for En»WnT* 1??'' r He continually exclaims Can my English friends believe theS outrageous things about me?" ?hen he moans -Those wonderfully happy days m England are gone, gone, go£?» *