The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1918-11-14
CHAPTER Ii.-continued.

a week of being launched we broke
through their lines on a slope 5000
feet high, covered with snow. where
they couldn't bring up their reserves
or new guns, and we surrounded
themi
I'VE took practically everything they
possessed-food enough to feed our
entire army without calling upon our
W supplies at all. Never before had
our armies seen such an Accumulation
Of ammunition. / must certainly 80
down to see II.
1--WE tut of their northern retreat
aud. a. they swung their army to the
south, We captured 10000 Of them up
to their knees in the rice fields. One
Of the great mistakes they made was
In carrying their civilian refugees with
them-clogging their narrow roads and
impeding the retreat Of their soldiers.
We had taken possession Of their most
productive regions. and their retreat
was through territory which yielded
them nothing. Just think Of that re-
treating army thrown upon the already
impoverished Inhabitants Of that . c
uon. Why, they'll starve to deashi
Everywhere We went w found
eheir big guns abandoned. In one
small village we came upon Q gun dec
Grated with flowers and surmounted
With q portrait Of Emperor Frans Jo-
GET. II had been put there by the Ital-
ian Inhabitants Of the village to show
their happiness at being released at
last from the yoke Of the intolerable
Italian lawyer government How ter
ribly the Italians must have treated
themi Italy will never get over this
defeat. This was real help from God
Now, we've got the alliesr and he
struck his left hand with his right with
great force to emphasize his apparent
conviction that the turning point In
the war had been reached with Italy's
collapse.
That the kaiser o regarded him
self and his armies as invincible / felt
and I feared that the success In Italy
would be followed at the first favora
BILE opportunity by a gigantic offensive
on the western front.
Indeed. on a subsequent occasion
when he called at my Office for further
treatment. and again referred to thu
Italian triumph. he remarked: IF oul
armies could capture 100000 Italians
and those 100000 might Just as well b.
dead as far as Italy is c~oncerned-w'
can do the samo thing against on
enemies on the westG"
This was one of the interviews / wa
% anxious to report to the representa-
lives Of the American intelligence de
partment at our legation in Copen
hagen and, later on. when I finally ar
rived In that city. l related 1t In grea
detail to them. I remained In Copen
hagen eleven days and during tn
greater part Of that time I was bein
interviewed by one or another Of tn
representatives Of our intelligence de-
partment. Exactly two months latel
On March p. the western offensiv
broke out as I had feared.
I called at Potsdam a day or two II
ter to attend the kaiser again, an
found him still In the same triumphaT
mood, and so anxious was he to e
down to Italy that he called at my O
dee three times that week to enabl
me to complete my work on his affec
ed tooth.
On November % the kaiser called {
my Office for what proved to be h
last sitting. I had received word q
the Goth that my pass for America ha
been granted and that l could len,
on the Both. and l accordingly told II
kaiser that It was my intention to lea,
for Copenhagen on that day.
explained that I was complete
run down-and l certainly looked It.
and that It was necessary for me
get to Copenhagen anyway, so that
could get In touch with America r
gardlng a porcelain tooth patent whit
had been granted to me In July. 19l
but which a large dental company WI
seeking to wrest from me The pate
authorities had delayed action becaui
Of the fact that I resided In an enen
country.
On the 2Sth I received q letter fro
the court chamberlain stating that Il
president Of police had made 1t know
to the kaiser that I had applied for
pass to America and demanding an 9
PLANTATION a. to why l had told the +,
ser that I had planned to 60 to Cope
hagen and had not mentioned Amt
lea.
I at once replied that It was indie
my intention. As / had told the kais'
to 60 to Copenhagen, but that ! h
applied for the pass to America
cause / wanted to be In a position
20 there II my patent affairs demau
ed It and I expressed the hope tn
nothing would be done to interfe
with the pass which had been pro
tsed me for the Both.
Nevertheless, the 30th came arou
and the pass didn't. and the boat viii
sailed from Copenhagen on Decent
Z. which l had planned to take. sail
without me.