THE KAISER OFFENDED.
A cablegram that did not reach New Zealand is thus referred to in the Sydney Telegraph: — There is an almost pathetic low-comedy touch about the purpose for which the Emperor of Germany is reported to have sent his Ambassador to Lord Salisbury. It appears that when Kaiser Wilhelm was undergoing one of his periodical booms in England some little time ago he was made Honorary Colonel of the Ist Dragoon Guards. When he sent his famous cable to President Kruger his stock Blumped most deplorably in the United Kingdom, bo to speak. The British wharf labourer dropped his bag of potatoes- and asked his German fellow-toiler to put up his hands. Things "made in Germany" were greeted v ! \\ hoots of derision in the course of unload..; „- from vessels, and in every way the British workman made it clear that he thought little of Germany and its people. At. this time the Ist Dragoon Guards burnt the effigy of their Honorary Colonel, who, in his other capacity as throned ruler of the German Empire, has sent his representative to obtain particulars of the. outrage, and demand satisfaction. This a sorry anticlimax, considering the size of the issues which German ambassadors were considering a few weeks ago.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5501, 28 February 1896, Page 2
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208THE KAISER OFFENDED. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5501, 28 February 1896, Page 2
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