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Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1929, Page 13

the Fatherland, in Magnanimity, Mercy and Justice, Passed cheerfully from the Midi of his Loyal People, Through the night of Death into the Sunlight of Immortality.” Of William 11, now tho exile of Doorn, Dr. Eulenberg gives a vivid account. He pictures him duifing his Imperial life as strutting about the stage, fiercely twisting his mustachios and declaiming passionate sentences about the Fatherland. Then came the unveiling. THE COMEDIAN. “On that eternally ignominious night of his desertion he also demonstrated before all men that the resounding phrases, tho full spate of words with which he had deluged his own country and world for five-and-twenty years, were so much flummery, himself no more than an actor. And suddenly, as though scales had fallen from their eyes, people saw the comedian, hitherto so adroitly concealed in the Emperor. He was, indeed, one of the most brilliant frauds ever wrapped in tho Royal ermine. And “William lost greatly with the remaining loyalists among his subjects by entering up his new marriage at the earliest possible date after tho death of his Empress, who had taken the fall of her house and her throne far more to heart than the self-satisfied author of these misfortunes. In this matter the Imperial widower’s conduct was far less decent and considerate than that of his great-grandfather, Frederick William IH.”

In the Crown Prince, or “Little Willie,” it seems almost “as if the Royal Hohenzollern strain had become degenerate and played out, that the lust to wield tho sceptre was dead.” This “amazing Crown Prince did not stretch out a finger for the sceptre, did not make a single attempt to reconquer the throne at the head of tho loyalists at home—and were there not still many loyalists in those days?”