Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-09
Hun Royalty
at Arm S Length
Boxing Instructor Of The kd1scr's
Family Writes Interestingly
OF Experiences.
copyrighted T.! y =. Slim. Furnished
by the International News Bureau. Incl
by j. Il. SLIM,
Eighteen Months In the Service of the
Emperor at Potsuam.

krupp Won Bohlcn went 10 see how
YOU mount iifteen-inch guns on a war
snip and how YOU show him. lie will
steal all your secrets, jus, as he stole
the establishment OF my poor old
friend. Friedrich krupp. We'll. who
would have thought it?"
| had been long enough in Germany
to accept all this banter with n smile.
keeping 10 myself the belief that prob
ably Herr Erupp and his experts had
Germans thought one gets used in
time TO the German belief that all
English are more or less born fools.
There !as the utmost excitement on
the return of Erupp Won Bohlen and his
experts. and the interest reached some
thing like fever pitch when he posted
straight away TO Eiel, to deliver, ii
was said his reports to the Kaiser in
person.
We'll. young Slim" said my friend
who had given me the mysterious hint
10 depart, you see what l told you.
krupp has been finding out whether
YOU are ready for war in England.
You sim have time TO get out while it
is stll healthy for YOU to go" al
lowed that hint. ana several others
not so pointed which came from other
quarters. to pass UNDECIDED Almost
every Englishman in Germany who
had influential acQuaintances received
similar Nciltu warnings ABOUT mat
time as have since heard. but
most of them. like myself. disreearded
these friendly warnings
I<AISEtS CONTROL OF
KRUPPS DEMONSTRATES
krupp Won Bohlen's visit TO the
Eng ish steel yards Interested me prin-
cipaliy because l heard so many incl
dents which showed how completely
the Kaiser had gained control of the
great krupp establishment. through
the agency. of Won Bohlen My inform
ants were all people like old Thysscn,
who prided himself upon Keeping his
business i'll the hands of his family
and free from the influence Of what
he called iunkcrdom.
Friedrich Erupp kept the business
in his own hands, too the old man
told me, and he meant it to STAY i'm
the family ana free from the Kaiscr's
influence. But the Emperor has it in
the hollow Of his hand now. and Bertha
krupp is nobody in the works where
her family have been supreme for
more than 4 century That comes Of
looking for coat OF arms"
learned that Bertha Ilrupp. the
heiress. no longer even attended the
meetings OF Krupps directors At
these monthly affairs the Kaiser was
often present in person. and in his
""st"te the Munster oil War. then Cen
erai fa!kenhayn, Was usually in at
tendance.
krupp Won Bohlen does nothing
without instructions from BERLIN
was told Oh all sides, and the Essen
families. which regarded krupps as
family province. were deeply Of
tended a. the Prusian influence being
paramount at the works
Persistent rumors 81 open disagree
ment between husband ana VIE were
fiie III Essen. and on more than one
.I1s.oh an Official denial had been
issued ana posted within tn. works
>uch q document was issued Will.
was staying in the town 1t bore
facsimile Of Bertha Krupp's signature.
and copy Of 1t, which the manager
O.: me hotel where stayed had beco!n.
possessed af. was shown 10 me- as
curiosity.