EX-KAISER AND EX-CZAR

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14253, 2 January 1920, Page 5

EX-KAISER AND EX-CZAR

—— -r- —• ' PUBLICATION OF CORRESPONDENCE GEEAT GERMAN CONSPIRACY. SOME INTERESTING DISCLOSURES (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received January 2, 10.30 a.m. LONDON, December 31. The Australian Press Association has secured the exclusive right of publication in Australasia of the historic letters of the Kaiser to the Czar between 1894-1914. The Morning Post, which owns the exclusive rights in Britain, is publishing many fas similes of these letters, which cover the perfcrd of the Boer and Busso-Japanese wars, Austria and Hungary's annexation of Bosnia, and Herzogovina, and 'the Emperor's trips to Jerusalem and the Mediterranean. ' ' The letters are of great political and diplomatic interest, and they form the key to the Kaiser's tortuous and clumsy foreign policy in his efforts to make Germany the master of the world. They reveal a great German conspiracy, •primarily designed against Britain, but involving ttie humiliation of Russia and France, and constituting the secret history of cause. l ; leading to the world war. The correspondence throws many sidelights on the Kaiser's personal character, revealing his extraordinary vanity, bad temper, love of rhetoric, the religious vein of his character, and his intense belief in his diplomatic finesse, which really consisted of bullying and flattery. The letters confirm what the world has suspected that the Kaiser hated and feared his English, uncle, Edward VII.