I had crossed the Atlantic with Prince Henry, the Kaiser's brother and Admiral of the German Navy, in February, 1901, when the Prince brought his party of a dozen or so militarists to this country to "further cement the amity and good will" existing between the great republic and the great empire.

The Allies then became interested in the Kaiser's probable choice of a line of defense for the winter on the northern section of his Russian front.

| FRESH LIGHT ON THE KAISER'S PLOTS.

The Imperial Chancellor, who is the only Imperial Minister, is chosen by the Kaiser and is responsible to him alone: he countersigns all the Kaiser's orders and edicts, and has the function, it may be added, of explaining away his indiscretions.

The Kaiser's crusading appeals are not hypocritical or consciously insincere: they are simply many centuries out of datea grotesque medley of medieval romanticism and royal megalomania.

So that the KAISER'S threat to fight England to the death may be taken for what it is worth.

And now the Goths are the Kaiser's men, And guard him with lance and sword, And the little Baltung is his sworn son-at-arms, And eats at the Kaiser's board,

Oh the fairest flower in the Kaiser's garden Is Rome and Italian land:

Could it be that the web of treachery and destruction the Kaiser's busy agents were weaving had its deadly strands fastened

You may know a man by the company he keeps, and the Kaiser's friends are now the Jolly Roger and Sir Roger Casement.

Meanwhile the Hamburg Fremdenblatt asserts that, "We Germans would gladly follow the Kaiser's lead through the very gates of hell, were it necessary."

The choice was the Kaiser's when, as Attila's understudy, "Go forth," he said, "my sons.

The simplicity and dignity of General Allenby's entry into the Syrian town Where on His grave with shining eyes The Syrian stars look down afford a happy contrast to the boastful pagentry of the Kaiser's visit in 1898.

My men singed a King's beard, and yours have singed a Kaiser's moustache."

" The enterprise of The Times in securing the reminiscences of the Kaiser's American dentist (or gum-architect, as he is called in his native land) has aroused mingled feelings.

*** Some explanation of the KAISER'S anxiety for peace and the GERMAN CHANCELLOR'S statement in the Reichstag has just come to hand.

At ol' Kaiser's a mighty foxy goat.

For it was always thought a good thing by such as were in authority to have a good show on the "Thieves' Architrave," or general gallows of the vicinity, as a thing at once creditable to the zeal of the worthy dispensers of local justice, and pleasing to the Kaiser's officer if he chanced to come spying that way.

In the hospital at Rouen, they called me 'The Kaiser's Masterpiece.'

The face he now suddenly beheld, under the clear white light of the cabin, was not the hideous, mangled wreck of humanityThe Kaiser's Masterpiecehe had expected to see.

"If that is the Kaiser's Christmas greeting to his loving followers," observed Wagstaffe drily, "I think he might safely have left it to us to deliver it!"

Well, the KAISER's a "kid," I suppose it's his play.

He was elected by a big majority in 1913, the votes of the large working-class population of the division, including Spandau (the Prussian Woolwich), being more than enough to offset the military vote which the Kaiser's henchmen mobilised against him.

The Hotel Adlon and others in Berlin are excellent hotels as such, but mixed up with spying upon strangers; Herr Adlon, senior, a friend of the Kaiser's, assists the Government spies when any important or suspicious visitor registers.

There was not the least trace of the cheerful, confident expression of the days when all believed that the Kaiser's armies would hammer their way to an early peace"in three months," as people used to say during the first year and a quarter of the war.