The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-25
PLANNED NEW
 WAR ON BRITAIN
Kaiser Talked of Second Clash While First Was Raging,
 Says Erzberger.
SOUGHT WORLD SUPREMACY
Parliamentary Leaders Stunned by Unexpected Display of Imperial MentaIity-Was Hardest
 Blow to Old System.

BerllD, NeTludlll - Nl luCA NSA Aiah Emperor William confidently expected to emerge victorious from the world war and then marshal his continental armies against Great Britain in what he termed "the second Punic war" says Matthias Erzberger in his volume of war recollections just published at Stuttgart. The emperor evidently used the term "Punlc war" in the sense of a conflict for world suprem- acy between two great nations.
 Herr Erzberger, who was formerly minister of finance but who has tenn porarily retired from public political activities, set forth in detail the meet ing between the emperor, William, and the reichstag leaders after the fall of Chancellor vou Bethmann-HOllweg and following the adoption of the peace resolution in July. 1917.
 "coripromise" Means "Take All" He says the emperor became enthu- siaStic over the phrase peace or compromise" which he assumed was what the reichStag majority demanded.
 "EXceIlent word - Compromise '" William stated. Tt means that we take the money, raw products, cot ton. oil and ores out of the pockets of our enemies and transfer them to our own"
 The parliamentary leaders, Herr Frzherger continues, were aStoniShed by this unexpected display of imperial mentality and felt that they were be- ing made the victims of his mockery. The emperor's further remarks were in the same channel. he declares.
 William asserted that the United States and Great Britain had entered into an alliance for the purpose of reckoning with Japan after the war. He was also reliably informed that RuSsiu would join Japan in warding off the Anglo Saxon blow. He admit ted that Great Britain would not emerge from the war defeated, but said the final accounting would come when he led his continental armies against her in "the second Punic war"
 Promised French Entente.
 The amazcucnt of the pOrltamenta- rians grew as tue kaiser continued Herr Erzbcrgcr reports. The mon arch asserted that "a complete under standing would be reached with France when the war was over"
 Referring to a battle in GaIicia which occurred only a few days pre- yious. the kaiser claimed that the Pru<sfan guard under the command of his son Fritz had "bruShed the democratic dust off the vests of the Russians"
 "Whcrever the guards appear there Is no longer any democracy left" he eEc!Himed.
 T4e RoumanianS got their just deS- sert,. the war losd told Herr Erz- hcrg,r when the latter suggested that the poor Roumauians had probably lost everything but their shirts.
 Herr Erzhercer adds that the whole meeting between the kaiser and the parliamentary leaders was not only a grave misfortune. but 1t proved "the deeneSt cut with the spade that ulti- mat-ly resulted in the overthrow of the prevailing regime"
 He concludes the chapter with the statement that the reichStag veterans, who up to that time were opposed to the parliamentary system, that very night openly avOwcd that the old sys' tem would inevitably plunge German! into disaster.