Arizona republican., 1917-08-13
The German Imperial Chancellor kmuses Hi mseIf

and villages which we passed were In uins and rough trench lines were to be discerned on some of the hilsides At the stations weeping French women dressed in black were not uncommon sights having just heard perhaps of the death. months before of a husband, sweetheart or son who had been mobil- | ized with the French army.
 The fortress city of Metz, through which we passed, seemed to be as animated as a beehive. Trains were i continuously passing. Artillery was to i be seen on the roads and automobiles were hurrying to and fro.
 1 The great general headquarters of ! the kaiser for the western front is in the town of Charleville- Mezieres, situ- ated on the Mouse in the department ! of the Ardennes, which department at : that time was the only French depart ment whol y in the possession of the i Germans We were received at the railway station by several officers and | escorted in one of the kaiser's automo- | piles, which had been set apart for my i use, to villa in the town of Charle vile, owned by a French manufacturer named Perrin. This pretty little red brick villa had been christened by the Germans "Sachsen Villa" because it had been occupied by the king of Sax 1 ony when he had visited the kaiser. A French family servant and an old gar 1 dener had been left in the villa, but for the few meals which we took in the villa. two of the emperor's body huntsmen had been assigned. and they brought with them some of the emper- or's silver and china
 The emperor Lad been occupying a large villa in the town of Charleville After the engineer of his private train had been killed in the railway station by bomb dropped from a French air plane and after ancther bomb had dropped within a hundred yards Of the villa occupied by the kaiser, he moved i to a red brick chateau situated on a hill outside of Charleville, known as either the Chateau Bellevue or Bel laire.
 | Nearly every day during our stay, we lunched and dinned with the chancel- l which he occupied About ten persons
 were prefent dt these dinners, the chancellor's son-in- law, Zech; Pritt-
 witz, and two experts in international jaw. both attached to the foreign office. At two dinners appeared Won Treut- Ter, the Prussian minister to BaVarla, who had been assigned to represent the
 foreign office near the person of the
 kaiser and Helfferich, who toward the end of our stay, had been summoned from Berlin.
 Happy Fannly at German Grand Head
 quarters
 I I had been working hard at German
 and as the Chancellor does not like to
 talk English and as some of these per
 sons did not speak that language, we
 tried to carry on the table conversation . in German. but I know that when
 tried to explain to Helfferich the Varl-
 ous tax systems of America in German
 | swan out far beyond my linguistic depth.
 During our stay here I received cables from the department of state
 which were transmitted from Berlin 1T
 cipher and which Grew was aole te
 decipher, as he had brought a code
 book with him. In one of these 1t was
 expressly intimated that in any settle
 naent of the submarine controversy
 America would make no distinction
 between armed and unarmed merchant
 ships.
 1 We formed for while quite happy