The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-07
Kaiser al Close Range
Judged by Govemess
"What Found Out Gives Pen Pictures of German Mill
tarist Leaders and Their Views Regarding
Plans for National Expansion



LoNpoN, Jan. e2.--The anonymous
English governess whose book, what
I Found out" has just been published
BY Chapman and Hail, has been In some
RESPECTS fortunate. The happy acCi-
dent OF possessing grandfather in the
United States navy. coupled with tile
polite interest OF Prince Henry Of Prus-
tia In this Brother Sailor that so dis
tinguished American seems TO have
helped her to secure a post as COVER
ness IN the household of "a prince dis
family related to the German Emperor,
and not entirely unconnected with the
German Genera STAN
The English governcss does not give
the name OF this prince nor that Of his
wife 81 feel owe them loyalty" she
remarks. and where they come into
this narrative ! am bound to sacrifice
realism."
I'm October ! arrived safely In Lon
don with my diary. and very little else
except five years memories she says.
These memories, which close with her
escape after an unpleasant period IT
internment In her employers castle az
suspected spy, include conversations
with the Kaiser aud meetings with the
Crown Prince, Count Zeppelin. the
Krupp family. Gen. Won Bernhard,
Herr Dernburg and many other mem-
bers Of the German milltarist party.
The first time she saw the children
who were to he under her care she
found that they were playing q new
game which Count Zeppelin mad in
vented and had ordered TO oe made for
them. ito teach them warlike spirit"
Under the direction Of their military
governor they were plotting airships
over large plan Of town, and as
they pulled little strings a shower Of
white pills fell from the cars, breaking
into powder on the buildings beneath.
"They have begged To finish destroy
ing London before supper" she was
told
n makes Game Intercsting."
% -'You must not think. gnaedlge
Fraeulein,' said their instructor, that
we mean a bad welcome to you, because
We have played at destroying your capi-
tai. II makes the game more interest
ing for intelligent children like these
10 pretend that they are attacking cities
whose names they hear mentioned by
grownup people and about which they
learn in geography and history. That
u all. And II is very harmless sport
"'Of course | agreed. But now |
had come close to tho toy town.
could see that the principal buildings
were recognizably modelled after those
they were intended to represent. While
Lieut.. Won Y stabbed the miniature Rep
ii,-iins ia big box with three divisions
roughly copying airship sheds. / turned
my attention to the city. II was sur
prisingly well done and must have been
as costly as IL was clever. Different
sections were fastened on to separata
foundations-the parks, for instance.
and Trafalgar Square with its fountains
and dots of lions. Buckingham Palace
with its gardens and tiny sparkle OF
lake was on the same wooden plateau rs
the Admiralty Arch and buildings. Three
railway stationB We're given, and | easily
found St Paul's with it's DOME West
minister Abbey, the Bank OF England. the
Tower and the Tower Bridge, OF course
all London was not attempted, but there
were less carefully designed models OF
big shops and flats, and it interested me
" see tIdl inc "Ooutu FOUNDATIONS uhu
all been accurately placed on a kind OF
map.
f, THE instant | realized what the chill
dren were doing 1t struck me as horrible
that innocent little souls should be en-
couraged to work destruction. After
ward q am ashamed to confess now
my helplessness to protest against the
game and others more or less like II
chilled me into resignation. II
WAS the German idea To infiame the
martial spirit OF boys from babyhood IN
every way. no matter what way. and sc
there was nothing TO do about