5 SEPTEMBER 1914, Page 3

We trust that our readers will not regard us as

friendly to the Kaiser or as members of " the Potsdam party " if we protest against a passage in a letter written by Mr. Frederio Harrison to the Times of Monday :— " Be it understood that when the allies have finally crushed this monstrous brood, the Kaiser }f, indeed, he chose to survive— shall be submitted to the, degradation inflicted on poor Dreyfus. In presence of allied troops, i t his bloodstained sword be broken on his craven back and the uniform and orders of which he ie so childishly proud be stamped in the mire. And if be lives through it, St. Helena or the Devil's Island might be his prison and his grave."