THE KIEL MVTINY.—HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF. ITO THE EDITOR OP m
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Sia,—The whirligig of time brings in its revenge. In March, 1848, a rising of the mob at Kiel was joined by the local Holstein forces, who broke their oath of allegiance to their Royal Duke, the King of Denmark. Then as now these armed bands swarmed into Slesvig, deposing the officials and terrorizing the inhabitants. And then as now the movement was engineered by Germany, who wanted to include Danish Slesvig in an "Imperial Democratic" Germany. The rebels were signally defeated by the Danish Army, whose entrance into Slesvig was greeted with joy by both Danish- and German-speaking inhabitants, and no more would have been heard of the Kiel Soviet if it had not been for the action of Prussia. The Hohenzollerns, eager to snatch Kiel Harbour and to curry favour with the revolutionaries at Berlin, sent aid to the Holsteiners. Thus the first seed was laid, which later on led to the war of 1861, in which Kiel finally. became Prussian property, and to the present world's war. And now the downfall of the Hohenzollerns, their dream of world's rule and of mastery of the
seas, was heralded at Kiel !—I am, Sir, &c., W. R. Paioa. National Liberal Club, Victoria Street, S.W. 1.
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