Porsoant axe Doom—By Brig.-Gen. W.
H.W. Waters, caee, eve, Murray, London, 7/0.
Duty has called General Waters to many different parts of the world; fo Russia os milliary attache at St. Petersburg; 12 South Atries for a short time during the Boer War; and fo China, where he was in command of the British troops at Tien-{sin from 1906 to 1910, But for him, his tenure of office as military jach6 at Berlin from 1900 to 1003 irpassed all other appointments Interest and opportunity for the study of world affairs Now, at the age of eighty-one, he has written a provocative volume of reminiscences, Sketching his relations with Kaiser William "LI at Berlin and supplementing these with knowledge acquired by visits to Doorn or by, correspondence during and after} 828, One of the most illuminating passages in the book deals with the German Emperor's speech at Marlborough House in 1901 after the funeral of Queen Victoria. The last words of the Emperor's reply to. King Edward's toast were as follows:
I believe there Is a Providence Which has decreed that two nations Which have produced such men as 'Shakespeare, "Scull, Luther, and Goethe, must havea great future Defore them. 1 believe that the two 'Teutonic "nations will, it by bit, learn to know each other better, and that they: will stand together to" help keeping' the peace of the world.
fe ought to form an Anglo-German alliance, you to keep the seas, while Se would be responsible for the land. With sch an alliance not 2 mouse could "silt in Europe without our permission, and the nations would In Yime come to see the necessity of Feducing their armaments.
These may have been the words of a rogue, but General Waters would have us believe that the Kaiser was never more sincere than fon this occasion. The speech and the book in general will provide food for thought for all who were
feeling ran high against the German Emperor and calumnies were heaped upon his head—a.a.r.
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