The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-01
PECULIAR FEATURE IN MOROCCO FIGHT Germany Is Very Bitter
 Toward England KAISER HARD WORKER Possessor of a Teutonic Appetite, German Emperor Is as Strenuous
 as Colonel Roosevelt-NO
 Hats in Theatres
KAISER HARD WORKER
By MALCOLM CLARKE

By MALCOLM CLARKE
 Berlin September 30.-One of the pe-
 culiar features of the controversy over
 Morocco Is the fact that in Berlin the | bitterness felt is all directed towards
 England. The tone of the press towards
 France the party directly at issue with
 Germany is not at all bitter, but when
 England Is under discussion no language
 is too strong to express German opinion. | There is a strong element which would
 welcome a contest of strength just now | with the British. For example a writer
 in the Lokal Auzeiger Herr Won Gott-
 berg, a former officer, depicts Britons as a craven race, which has always feared | to send it's own sons into battle, and
 has never won war, even with mercen-
 aries without the assistance of an ally. Thus ends Herr von Gottberg's recital:
 "England's vaunted strength is sheer
 bluff, because she has never shown on d
 single occasion that she is able
 to fight a serious foe. Her navy
 has had just as little experience of war | as our own, for Nelson commanded wooden ships. Wherever we have seen
 England in battle she has run amuk with l regard to the rudiments of tactics. The elementary principles of battle on sea | are the same as those which govern land
 war, and nation which places Buffers l (Redvers Bullers) in the saddle of the l army leader will never more boast a Nell | son on the captains bridge Let us cele-
 brate Sedan Day by looking into the
 volume of English history Then we shall see that we do not need to fear
 new enemies any more than old ones." 1 There is no doubt that von Gettberg
 expresses the ideas of big elemenet in 1 the army, but it may be said that the | Kaiser and his advisers have no such
 idea. They realize fully that in a naval | conflict with Great Britain the only way
 the German navy could be preserved from | destruction would be by keeping 1t under | the protection of the land Qualifications
 and as I have previously said Germany | will not force a war at this time if it
 can be possibly avoided without too great | loss of prestige.
 While his majesty is, of course, taking
 an active part in the present negotia- | tions, he would not be Wilhem If this
 was not so, he finds plenty of time for other things.
 l The Kaiser, as matter of fact, Is one | of the hardest workers in his empire. He | rises at in the summer, and in the
 winter, and late hours on the previous ! evening do not make him late in the
 morning. However, the German court
 usually goes to bed very early. It is per- | haps quite unnecessary to say that, once up, the emperor is at work doing some | thing" all day. He works hard at poll | tics and government. He paints pictures | by deputy, writes songs with assistance,
 can conduct an orchestra personally, still sings in baritone voice in the bosom of | his family, shoots magnicently, rides like
 a centaur, is brilliant and pleasing con- versatonalist, and is suspected of de- | sire to manage an aeroplane. | His appetite is very teutonic. He begins
 the day with a large breakfast, and fin- l ishes it with a substantial supper. He | has been known to sup on herrings and | beer at o'clock in the morning. He | is a Germanly affectionate but decidedly heavy" and perhaps dctatorial father. He has always been a devoted husband, | but his manner has changed of late. For merly the empress was so completely un- | der orders that she could do nothing, hardly even retire to dress, without ask | ing for his instructions and permission. The marriages of her sons, however, | have surrounded her with daughters in-law who all have opinions of their own on the importance of their sex. The | result of this example is that the em- press has quietly asserted herself, and is no longer under orders.
 With it all the kaiser knows better than perhaps any sovereign in Europe, when to bluff and when to throw this hand in the discord, to use an illustra- ton which will be familiar to most Amer jeans.
 This Morocco affair is a case in point It may be set down as a fact that his majesty has no idea of permitting the matter to come to a show down, continu- ing the poker metaphor.
 The Emperor has appointed his second son, Prince Aithel Frederick, to be Statthalter of Pomerania. This is an officer, or perhaps, rather, title which has been held three times before-by King Frederick William ". when he was gen. eral in command of the second army corps, by the governor of the Rhneland, and by the Emperor Frederick when he was crown prince.
 It is suggester that Prince Eitel Fred erick will be given the command of a Pomeranian regiment, and attention Is called in some quarters to the apparent contrast between his new position, which places him above the Oberprasident of the only Prussan province which has a Statthalter at all, and that of the crown prince who is about to go to Danzig in the purely military capacity of com mandant of a regiment.
 The beginning of a new Berlin theatre season Is marked by the issue of a police order to theatre managers requiring them to forbid the wearing of "headcoverings"
 in the boxes of their theatres It has hitherto been regarded as permissible here for ladies to wear hats in the boxes, though not in the other parts of the house. Failure to comply with the police order will be punished in every case with a fine of 95.
 The police president, Herr von Jagow, who after more or less successful cam paign against long hatpins now turns his attention to hats, refers in his order to their inconvenient size according to present fashions, and justifies his inter- vention by assuming that resentment at the blocking of view of the stage is likely to provoke disturbances of public order.
 Of the hundreds of drowning tragedies that have occurred in Germany during the present summer, none has been sad der than that which the other morning put an end to the ives of three mem bers of the same family at the watering place of Deep near Colberg.
 A clergyman's widow. named Herold, who was staying there with her family, got into difficulties while bathing, and before help could reach her she sank. i Her grown up son, who was also in the l water some distance away, heard his mothers cries for help, swan to the spot and dived out of sight. What ex- actly happened then will never be known. l but he failed to reappear on the surface, | and it is supposed that he was seized by i