New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02
By an American Correspondent

- lie ndll lBhbn Va 1890
emerged from the shadows down
the road a column OF popier
trees. Motionless and erect, !,
seemed they were on sentry duty 100
The gray green OF their uniforms, al
most invisible against the fields, SOL
diers in twos crossed and recrosseo the
road, ghostly in the quickening spec
trum of day. helmeted shadows OF the
Kaiser's Guard. Further down the
road n light cleaned. That was the
chateau; there Wilhelm ii. by God
Grace King of Prussia and German
Emperor" slept. .,
In nearby field horses whinhied and
neighed; men moved; talking IN
harsh, early morning voices. Two
souadrons OF the Dragon GUARDS
were encamped there-should 'ne
Kaiser call. There, too. one g.lmpSeGi
thin, lean glimmer of steel; ana
as the sky changed from gray 70 PINK
there came out of the vagueness, tax
ing sinister shape, guns OF the morse
artillery-should the Kaiser call.
Guarding him as ne slept, niles OF
the Crav-zreen men paced through me
chateau part. An outer circle. which
tramped along the spiked iron fence
of the grounds; another circle Stalk
iuo through the trees; another, an
other, until, after circle upon circle
of sentries, one came TO a double
guard at the narrow, prim entrance
10 the chateau.
Guards in Every Room
Even there the guards over the
Kaiser did not end. Upstairs sen,
tries stole through the high-ceilinged
halls. In the rooms just above, Just
below and on either side Of the Kaiser
chamber secret service men spent
sleepless night, watching, listening,
the eternal vigil over the imperial
body. For the German Emperor is
never so guarded as ne is at the
front. Twenty miles from the mr.
ing line, this chateau. Guarded
against what?
All through the night there had
come down TO the soldiers IN the
park the faint purring and clattering
Of the guards above, aeroplanes cir
cling high above the imperial head, two
eyes of the army peering through
the high places, lest en- enemy hier
swoop near. And on the gravel drive
below carefully posted motor trucks,
platforms on wheels, mounting long
range anti-aircraft guns; others with
monstrous glazy eyes that twlnkied
now in the dawn-the searchlights
that had been ready to sweep the night
with light had the enemy aiers come:
And on the chateau roof, under
which slept their Emperor, more OF
the gray-green men watched the vel
! lowing sky and yawned and fell
hungry. Since midnight they had
held the watch there, their machine
guns tilted skyward; all about then
layers of sandbags 70 swallow the ex'
plosion of an enemy bomb. Nets, ar
arbor of wires over their heads, every
precaution 10 nullify the effect OF
bomb that might be cast down upor
the chateau where the Kaiser slept.
Kaiser's Day Begins
Six o'clock. A commotion at the
deer. The guard stiffened into
statues, trapsfxed in the imperial
salute. A man dressed in gray-greer
like theirs, a gray military cape, LINED
with red, hanging from his square
shoulders, the short baton of telG
marshal protruding from his left hand
appeared in the doorway. With quick
gesture his right hand returned theIi
salutes: Good morning, soldiers An
other day for the Kaiser has begun.
Sc began a day for the Kaiser IN
July. 1915; so has begun many day
for him during this war. For the
German Emperor is more often at the
trent than he is at the castle IN berlln
At one time during the early fight,
in,; against Russia he barely retreated
with a division across the RIVER
Nlemen in time 70 escape capture by a
Cossack patrol-an event. this. little
known in Germany.
Again, riding in an automobile with
Won Hindenburg in front of the FOR
tress of Kovno, the kaiser's car was
picked up by Russian artillery OBJ
servers and there was race Tor lie
against the shells Again with his stan
and against their wishes, the Kaiser
ventured upon d hilltop opposite Sols-
sons in France and brought the crash
of shrspnei down about his ears.
Yes. the Kaiser has seen this war.
He has seen it at the front. He has
seen regiments surge into action Tor
him and die. Under his eyes he
deeming that his presence would STIR
the men 70 greater efforts the Ger
mans charged again and again 70 break
the British lines at Tpres. And the
Kaiser saw the flower of his army, the
Prussian Guards. blasted away.
And later he saw the funeral pyres
Of their dead lighting ore OF those
Tpres nights made greenlsh with the
rocket flares, one Of those nights when
mad colors seethe up from No Mans
Land and the trenches slowly turn 70
great long graves. The Kaiser has
seen these horrors by night, those IN
earthly nights By the Ypres Canal, that
always seem 10 come out Of the pages
of a Maeterlinck play.
Shows Effect of War
War has made its imprint on the
Kaisers mind. One can see Il to-day.
The rebellious lock of hair over the
temple is more gray. deep furrow
between the brows where there was
none before, a shadOWing in his gray
blue eyes that used always 10 be clear.
At times, on the imperial face. the
gamblers expression is discernlble,
the Monte Carlo face intensified lllimi-
tably. The Kaiser seems then like a
man who mas thrown everything on the
wheel people. country, dynasty and
the uncertainty. the stress Of waiting
and waiting for result, is portrayed
there.
Correspondingly the Kaiser's reac-
tons OF expression are violent to-day.
After the victory at Warsaw in 1915
the Kaiser looked extravagantly joy
Gus. Il was as il one had been trying
20 tell ones self that everything was
coming out all right-although SUB
consciously one often feared not-and
that then something happened, a vic
toryi And for a moment the tension
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