TRIAL OF EX-KAISER.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17730, 2 December 1919, Page 9

TRIAL OF EX-KAISER.

SOME DAMNING EVIDENCE

WILHELM'S SHARE IN WAR PLOT-

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; LONDON, Nov. 27. The ex-Kaiser has disclosed his real character and his sinister share in the plottin:-; at. Potcdnm on the even of the war. by his "embittered, contemptuous attitude towards England in, a remarkable series ot autograph memoranda au r notations on official correspondence dis covered in Berlin as a result of Kerensky's investigations. The documents have shown that Germany began htr preparations for.war on July 6th, when the. ex-jfaiser incited Austria in the strongest terms to attack and crush ServiaVand plotted to throw on Russia the odium of the eventual wider couflii:t." Visroiint Grey's mild preliminary interventioa met with immediate resentment. Tbo e*x-Kaiser wrote'" to yon Jano stating that Visrount Grey must be told plainly "I won't stand any nonsense." Followmcr the failure of Germany's desperate bid lo ssouro British-neutrality, wherein th« Chancellor hinted at tho possibility of a later naval agreement. Lielinovv'.siiy reported that -Viscount Grey ie.jarcted the situntior. as inercr-?-indy serioMK. The ex-Kaiser commented : "It is the biggest piece of Englisn phariaism I've ever seen- With sucli pccundivls I'll never conclude a nav.il agreement. Grey is a Mephistophlea.), but truly the English are learning that Britain might l>e unable to stand aside.'' The ex-Kaipor's fury was unbounded Ho described the British ns a pack cf hucksters; and declared that Viscount Grey ".va« trying to senarate Germany find' Austria. He added that- Grey ''could keep France an.;! Russia quiet if he cared to send a single sharp word tn Parish and St. Pt'tersburc. He threateiio us instead, Ihe low hound. Ro-S|)onsibilit-y for peace or war now rests with England alone." In a later memoranda, the p.x-Kaiser bitterly wrote: "TCdwnrJ VII. is dead, but be is still stronger than 1 who ftm alive." The Attorney-General states that arraneremenis for the trial of the exKaiser havd not been completed..