"DAYS OF WORLD'S HISTORY."
Congratulatory Telegram to Kaiser Wilhelm II., Aug. 27.
Victory after victory. God is with you. He will be with us also. I most sincerely congratulate you, dear friend, also the young hero, your dear son, the Crown Prince, and the Crown Prince Rupprecht, as well as the incomparably brave German Army. Words fail to express what moves me and, with me, my army, in these days of world's history.
"FRANZ JOSEPH."
WILL OF WILHELM II. THAT SWUNG THE SWORD.
Kaiser Franz Josef's Address in Bestowing the Great Cross on the German Kaiser, September, 1914.
The glorious victories, so crushing to the foe, which the German Army has won in battle under your chief command owe their begetting and their success to your iron will, which sharpened and swung the heavy sword.
To the laurel that crowns you as victor I wish to add, if I may, the highest military honor which we possess, in begging you to take in true brotherhood of arms and as a token of my appreciation the Great Cross of my military Order of Marie Theresa. The decoration itself, dear friend, shall be handed to you by a special envoy as soon as it is convenient for you.