THE KAISER'S PROPHECIES.
A LUCKLESS RECOIID.
"To God alone it is known how long tho war will last," says the Kaiser u> hi, armies. What a deel.ih: i, here, in lUit he promised that ah should ( bo over before* the hiiues fell. At Liiat time everything dono had the approval of "our good old German god. An echo of the oaf.t! The andenli Germans, to whoso faith super-J'rus-sians would ictiirn, claimed lo influence and predict, the will and purposo of their deity. The Kaiser, ti.en, did but revert to precc.-ikm.t,. Hut Paris, Calais, Verdun, Zeppelins and new have proved fatal to All-Highest prophecy. Still the Kai-ser, like another -lisreputable gentleman, must have his due, says the "Daily Chronicle." He may urge that he foresaw the shortace' of gunnietal, which his saie'litc-s are seeking to repair by cr.lbeting knockers and handles from German dcoi's. Q\ioting from " he said to Sullivan, its r.v ; viv.o.<er, long ago, "I understand >ou polished "!> the' handle of tV bice <'"'•> nt door?" Clearly a "feeler." Sullivan did nor in reply particularise or loeato the handle. "• It may be scheduled, generally, in the Prussian war archives, but it "remains safe, in situ, and in tone), " uocannonised " for Germany's was:-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12081, 9 August 1917, Page 4
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