SENSATIONAL STORY.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 June 1925, Page 2

SENSATIONAL STORY.

“ANOTHER WAR COMING.” CONSPIRACY IN GERMANY. ALLEGED MONARCHIST PLOT. WAR LORD’S PLAN OF REVENGE. London, April 24. A strange book, entitled “The Return of the Kings,’’ has just been published which purports to reveal a sensational plot for the restoration of monarchies in several countries of Central Europe. The writes calls himself a political agent and hides his identity under the pseudoym “X. 7. Tire publishers make this announcement: “Although the work is anonymous, the pulilishers are in a position to state that the writer is one whose name appears in the Almanach de Gotha.” - The book alleges, and attempts by personal experiences to prove an amazing conspiracy. The restoration of mon" archies is to be effected by encouraging and furthering Bolshevik plots outside Russia with the idea of scaring European countries into joining Germany in a reactionary movement ostensibly to thwart the “Red Peril.” “X. 7 while living in. retirement amidst the Alps, was, he says, approached by the German Secret Service, and asked to resume, his old activities and place himself at the disposal of the conspiracy. The four principal pawns in our game, the author was told, were c.X; German Crown Princess (Princess Cecile f, Princess Antoinette of Luxemburg (wife of ex-Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavara), Prince Sixtus of Bourbon Parma (brother of ex-Empress Zita), and Monsieur Poincare. He was to win these personalities for the intrigue. Prince Parma was their nominee for the throne of Poland. They, desired no revival of the German Empire, but a return of the old German Confederation, with independend monarchies. Their enemies, they told the author, were the ex-Kaiser and General Ludendorff, because they are plotting a Hohenzpllern restoration on the basis of the old Empire. “X. 7. quotes textually his conversations with some of tiiese and with many other European personalities. LUDENDORFF AND THE ARMISTICE. An alleged conversation with Ludendorff i s quoted. The genferal is reported to have said: “It is strange to me, the rapidity with which a nation can forget the wrongs done to it. How many people are there in Germany to-day who still dream of revenge, still' think of the day when we will be able to pay back all the injury done to us. And we shall pay it all back, believe me, pay it back with interest and before very long.” “Does Your Excellency then mean that another European war is drawing near?” “That is precisely what I mean. Another war is coining and it will be worse than the one just ended. They say it was I who lost my nerve and who urged the conclusion of an armistice. I did not lose my nerve, but I saw revolution at work. We let bolshevism loose in Russia, and the Allies in their turn let it loose upon us I did insist on an armistice being concluded, on matter under what conditions, and in doing so I knew I was acting for the good of my country. No matter what happens now, the nucleus of our old Prussian army is intact and the danger of its succumbing and being destroyed by bolshevism, is past. What ever I have done, I glory in it, because if ever we get that- revenge for which every true German is yearning, it will be due to the courage, not cowardice, that I displayed when I telegraphed to the Government that an armistice must be signed.”

AN AMBITIOUS KAISERIN. “And what of the Kaiser in all this?” “The Kaiser wants, as I do, to see Germany prosper and take one day its revenge on her enemies. But he does not wish to be restored to his former position, at least his young wife, the Kaiserin Hermione.” *’oli! Is she the ambitious one in this case ?” “Yes, and she has been wonderfully useful to us. Without her we could hardly have carried on our propaganda as successfully as we have done. She is always there when wanted. She can leave Doorn; it is, therefore, easy for her to travel about and obtain any information we may need. She would like to be hailed as Empress in Berlin, and, who knows?—slie may be one day.” The ex->Crown Princess refused to lend herself to any intrigue, and, indeed, started “X. 7. by asking him: “What do you make of the Bolsheviks and the help our Sercet Service is extending them?” and by remarking later, with reference to the possibility of a Hohenzollern reigning again in Prussia: “But all this can only be the work of time. It will never be hastened by the senseless schemes of the men at the head of the Secret Service—an institution that ought to have been swept away, because it is largely the cause of Europe’s present mi5ery.......-. .-

“We must not only profess to abstain from politics, we must actually do it. That is what lam continually impressing upon the Crown Prince and his brothers. But we are handieaped by the Kaiser and his intrigues. I tell this to you, because I wish you to understand the position and to realise that to-day in Prussia we stand between the intrigues of the Kaiser, inspired by Ludendorff and men like him, and the intrigues, far more important and dangerous, of the German Secret 'Service that has learned nothing from the war.”