"GERMANY'S HANGMAN,"

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12285, 6 April 1918, Page 5

"GERMANY'S HANGMAN,"

ATTACKS ON KAISER.

(London “Chronicle.”) AMSTERDAM, January 28, The “Deutsche Tageszeitung ” openly calls on the German people to revolt against the present regime. Mo, too,” says this Dan-German organ, “have a Judas amongst us today. He appears in the red court mantle of Germany’s hangman. Mho wdl save Germany from this traitor but the German people? it is now ‘ Germans, help yourselves, and God will help you.’ ” Though the Kaiser is not named in the article, the expression “Germany’s hangman” is meant for the Kaiser.’ PARIS, January 27. Tlie moderate parties in Germany who were in favour of peace on conditions acceptable to all, and who relied on the support of the Kaiser to check the plans of the Pan-Germans and militarists, so faithfully represented by General Hoffmann, are, it is said, dismayed by the sudden change in the Emperor’s dispositions. A person who was able to approach M’ilUam H. recently has declared'to a correspondent of the “Humauitein Switzerland:— “Is the man completely mad? He has come to believe again that he will one day return to London. The military clique have little difficulty in convincing him that the situation” is excellent for Germany. Until a. short while ago he was silent and melancholy; now he has become noisy again, and talks incessantly.” It is supposed in Liberal circles in Germany that the threats recently made against-his family by Conservative and Pan-German organs like the “ Deutsche Tageszeitung’’ have influenced the and that on the other hand the acceptance of peace pourparlers by the Bolshevik Government has sufficed to bring buck oldtime dreams to his brain.