THE EX-KAISER.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 170572, 3 August 1921, Page 7

THE EX-KAISER.

IDS MONEY MATTERS. A PENNILESS FUGITIVE. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and Is.il. Cable Association. BERLIN. August 1. A hook published on behalf ot the Prussian Finance Ministry, throws some light on the ex-Kaiser's finances. AVilholin saved 180,000 _ marks during the first year of his reign, and steadily accumulated thereafter. In the first year's he saved 1,000,000 marks annually, but towards the end his expanses exceeded the State allowances. When he abdicated the Privy purse contained ,10,000,000 marks, whereof half was invested in first-class industrial shares. The cx-Ivaisor never held shares in Krupps, though for a time ho had a few hundred thousand marks invested in debentures. He was moneyless when lie fled to Holland, and existed nil credit- until money was sent in .December, 1918. Sixty-nine million marks were remitted to him to the end of 1920, chiefly from the sale of personal property. Herr Heinig’s book points out that m addition to money, large quantities, of plato were sent to Doom, including 1000 silver plates, with, knives, iorks and -spoons to match. 300 gilded plates, a. collection of enormous epergne.s, a case of communion plate and also a, silver font, a gift, from the Queen of England. . The hook shows that the Sparta cists damage of the palace during the revolution was negligible. .Although the revolutionaries requisitioned . horses from the Royal stables, wherewith to pull field guns, they punctiliously returned tho same. Huge quantities of -foot], wino and cognac remained untouched throughout the revolutionary occupation of the Royal soliloss. The author points out that, not a single palace official, ninny of whom served the Court for a lifetime, received a word of acknowledgement or thanks from the ex-Kaiser.