The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-12-28
broke your royal mothers heart, but
/ gained my purpose.

ohAoiieihS hiiieO your Iatner, just as
/ it will kill you, and you became the
ruler of Germany and a tool of mine
sooner than l expected.
ITO assist you and farther hasten
my work sent you three evil spir.
its Neitzsche, Treitscke and later
Bernhard, whose teaching inflamed
the youths of Germany, who in good
time would be willing and loyal sub.
jects and eager to spill their blood
and pull your chestnuts, yours and
mine; the spell has been perfect
you cast your ambitious eyes toward
the Mediterranean. Egypt, India and
the Dardanelles and you began your
great trailway to Bagdad. but the am.
bilious archduke and his more ambit-
ious wife stood in your way 1t was
then that l sowed the seed in your
heart that blossomed into the assas-
sination Of the Duke and his wife, and
all hell smiled when it saw how clev.
erly you saddled the crime on to Ser
via. | saw you set sail for the fjords
of Norway and l knew you would
prove an alibi. How cleverly DONE
so much like your noble grandfather
who also secured an assassin to re-
move old King Frederick, of Den
mark, and later robbed that country
Of two provinces that gave Germany
an opportunity to become naval
power. Murder is dirty work, but it
takes Hohenzollern to make a way
and get by.
Your opportunity was at hand;
you set the world on fire and bells Of
hell were ringing; your rape on Bel
gium caused much joy, 1t was the be-
ginning, the foundation of perfect
hell on earth, the destruction of noble
cathedrals and other infinite works
Of art was hailed with joy in the in
fernal regions. You made war on
friends and foe alike. and the murder
of civilians showed my teachers had
borne fruit. Your treachery toward
neutral nations fastened universal
upheaval, the thing l most desired.
Your under-sea warfare is a master
stroke, from the smallest mackerel
pot to the great Lusitania you show
no favorites; as a War Lord you stand
supreme, for you have no mercy; you
have no consideration for the baby
they both go down in the the deep
together, only to be torn apart and
lcisurely devoured by the sharks
down among the corals.
II have strolled over the battle
fields of Belgium and France, / have
seen your hand of destruction every
where; it's all your work, superfiend
that | made you. / have seen fields
of. Poland; now wilderness fit for
prowling beasts only; no merry chill
dren. in Poland now; they all sue
cumbed to frost and starvation. |
drifted down into Galicia where for
merly Jews and Gentiles lived happi-
ly together! found but ruins and ash
es; l felt a curious pride in my pupil,
for it was all above my expectations.
was in Belgium when you drove the
peaceful population before you like
cattle into slavery; you separated
man and wife and forced them to hard
labor In trenches. have seen the
most fiendish rape committed on
young women, and those who were
forced into maternity were cursing
the father of their offspring, and
began to doubt IL my own inferno was
really up to date.
"You have taken millions Of dollars
from innocent victims and called 1t in
demnity; you have lived fat on the
land you usurped and sent the real
owners away to starvation. You have
strayed away from all legalized war
methods and introduced code of
your own. You have killed and
robbed the people of friendly nations
and destroyed their property. You
are liar, hypocrite and buffer of
the highest magnitude. You are a
part of mine and yet you pose as
a personal friend of God. Ah, Will
helm, you are wonder. You wanton-
, ly destroy all things in your path and
leave nothing for coming generations.
81 was amazed when I saw you form
a partnership with the impossible
Turk, the chronic killer of Christians,
and you a devout worshipper in the
Lutheran Church. | confess, Will
helm, you are puzzle at times. A
Mohammedan army. commander by
German officers assisting one another
in massacreing Christians, is a new
line of warfare When a Prussian
! officer can witness nude woman be-
ing disembowled by a swarthy Turk
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