Kaiser On Balkan Kings.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 2, 1913:
Praises Greek Ruler — Rest Stayed Home and "Combed Their Dogs."
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, Aug. 1.— The Kaiser, according to Maximilian Harden, has been paying his respects to the Balkan Kings in characteristic language. The latest number of the Zukunft credits his Majesty with the following remark:
    "My brother-in-law [King Constantine of Greece] is the only one who has accomplished anything in the field. The others have stayed at home and combed their dogs."
    Herr Harden recalls that after the Greeks' luckless campaign against the Turks at the close of the last century the Kaiser had a considerably less complimentary opinion of their army. The editor of the Zukunft quotes the War Lord as saying in Danzig, in criticising some manoeuvres of German troops, that they were "just like Greeks at Larissa."