Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-03-24
DENOUNCES KAISER
BEFORE RE|CHSTAG
Socialist Deputy Kunert Refers
to Him as Originator
of the War.
WRITER HINTS ABDICATI0N

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. March "a, $50 am.-The
German emperor and Chancellor Won
Bethnlann Hollweg We're denounced in the
reichstag by the socialist deputy kunert
as the originators of the war, according
to Berlin dispatch to Reuters by way
of Amsterdam. The incident occurred
Thursday during a debate on the public
health estimates. Vice Chancellor Helf
ferich, referring to Herr Kunert's re-
mark, declared that German who spoke
in the same breath of Russian and Ger
man conditions insulted his fatherlanG.
The socialist deputy retorted amid So
cialist applause:
Because l compared German reaction
aries with Russian revolutionists you say
/ insulted the fatherland. I should be
proud if such progress were made in our
country as has been made in the Rus
sian empire"
Socialist Deputy Hoch. criticising the
statistics of the president of the board
of health. declared that they did not allow
the formation of a conclusive Judgment
and that the president should not have
painted such a rosy picture OF the health
of the population when .'underfeeding is
almost terrible and bound to affect the
public health
Another socialist stated that in many
esta blishnseIfr workmen had collapsed
from hunger
Forecasts Kaiser's Abdication.
PARIS, March a. 4:5o a.m.-The alb
dication of the German emperor is fore
cast by the former German magistrate
who wrote TIE celebrated book.
in
in oeuvre- He says:
The kaiser is obsessed by the thought
that he is responsible for the war-a
thought which paisons his whole exist
ence. He feels that he is nenaced by
fhree enemies a home without count
ing those abroad: First is the crown
prince. the real author of the war: sec
ond is the junker pan-Germanist-you
cannot imagine the smoldering hatred
OF the emperor for those he believes to
be maniacs. who are driving him into
an abyss; third are the people-not the
socialist party, but the people-who are
starving and who, he feels, are growing
in number and rising little by little
against those who organized the war.
Struggle Most Bitter.
The other day at the meeting of the
parliamentary presidents and the min
listers of the federal sovereigns, at
which the submarine war was decided
upon, the struggle between the kafser's
party and that of Won Tirpitz was most
bitter. The majority against the en-
peror was so great. however, that he
was obliged to submit and pretend that
he was convinced In particular he was
personally opposed to break with
President Wilson, but he was forced to
consent. Documents will be published
one day which will prove that secretly
h RI RI ~, I-,v, A
down upon him. and that he considers
that the rupture was an irreparable
mistake. The failure of the submarine
war will soon show that he was right,
but it will be too late.
1.-THE people he fears most are the
anti-militaristS, anti-PruSSian, liberal
republicans, who want the reichStag to
be based on universal suffrage. That
is why Wilhelm is so anxious to con-
vince the nation that he did not want
war. All his protestationS are made to
appease the liberals and his famished
and ruined subjects whose murmur-
ings are growing stronger. He wants
to continue popular at any price and
that is why he spoke the first word
Of peace. The people were grateful for
it. but the submarine war came and
spoiled everything
Suffers in His Pride.
ut is hard to realize how this en-
peror, who enjoyed a popularity I'M
exampled in our epoch, suffers in his
pride. He alone perhaps in Germany
knows the whole truth. since he alone
has in his possession the elements for
forming a judgment on the situation
as a whole. How can he resist morally
and physically under such strain?
Certainly he hopes sometimes. but less
and less, for the success of the I'M
restricted submarine war which he
opposed. He sees the isolation of
Germany become more and more
complete.
''Once he tried to initiate peace
negotiations and failed. To try again
would be to admit and proclaim to the
whole world, but above all to the Ger
man people, which he fears most, Ger
many's real situation. If the allies
solemnly declared. as they did with
Napoleon in 1915, that they would
refuse to treat for peace with the
Hohenzollerns. it would be a Knockout
blow Our German people, who still
believe in him. would abandon him,
for peace at any price will soon be the
unanimous and hidden thought of
tortured Germany.
His Only Alternative.
What resource is left to him but
L.