The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-26

German orderly employed in connec- tion with the hospital at Burgstein- l furt, where was recovering from an | attack of dysentery.
 I was seated on a bench in the hos | pital grounds one afternoon in Sept | ember when the orderly, whose name was Vollmer, appeared on the scene and began to converse with me in a very friendly manner.
 Vollmer was fair-haired, clean 1 shaven fellow about twenty-five years of age, and of medium height and build. He had fought in France, and had been sent back to Germany be- cause of a breakdown in health. l can honestly say of Vol1mer that he was one of the few decent Teutons it has been my fortune to meet.
 After inquiring about my progress towards recovery, Vollmer asked if there was anything I wanted that he could get for me in the town, and I replied that if he brought me some peaches would give him a cake of soap.
 Vollmer was delighted, and well he might be, for good soap is worth it's weight in gold in the Fatherland. The E'war soap served out there is largely composed of sand and aIkali, and, as I heard one disgusted Hun ejaculate, would ruin the complexion of a wood en god. I have received goods to the value of over a sovereign for a single cake of soap sent me from home. I got the peaches, and it was after I had handed over the soap that Voll- mer told me the story of the attempt on the Kaiser's life, which occurred during the second week in August, while the Kaiser was motoring along one of the streets of Berlin.
 My brother was my informant" said Vo1lmeer, "and he was in Berlin when the thing happened. No report appeared in the newspapers, because it would have been bad policy to spread such an item of news throug- out the world. Nevertheless, 1t is ab- so1utely true that the assassination oi the Kaiser was attempted, and that he narrowly escaped with his life.
 "Yes, the War Lord had a very nar- row escape" repeated Vollmer add
 ing, land if he had been killed it
 would certainly have changed the whole course of things so far as Ger.
 many is concerned"
 "You see, the affair happened about a we5k after a serious riot had taken place in the capital. Several thous-
 and workers had gone on strike be- cause they found 1t impossible to get , what they considered to be their fair
 share of the small amount of food in the city. They aneged that profit eering was rampant, and that the rich 1 twere enjoying abundance while they starved Royal Chauffeur Lost His Life r "Of course, the soldiers were called . out to disperse the rioters, and a good
 deal of bullets, and one pretty girl of 7 sixteen was included in the number , She was the only child of a shoemak- . CT, who nearly went mad when he f ga1ed upon the face of his dead r daughter.
 '"The shoemaker was a Socialist o1 most radical type, and hater of the Q war, and this being so he found il q easy to convince himself that the Elm lperor had indirectly caused the death
 of his girl
 a 'Be that as it may, the fact remains
 that, as the Kaiser was being driver
 down along the Uter den Linden in {
 motor car, this shoemaker suddenly dashed out into the roadway, ant 5 hurled bomb at the Royal carriage 0 There was a terrific explosion, as s result of which the Kaiser's chauffeu, o was instanly killed, and the front DOT II tion of the car wrecked.
 @ 'SThe Kaiser himself suffered somt -- shock, but otherwise escaped withou o a scratch. The shoemaker had throw A the bomb in front of the advancinj n car, and it had exploded a fraction O -e a second too soon to accomplish tn e. object desired by the avenger Tn
 latter was arrested, tried, and shot 'd '"The incident created tremendou It excitmenti Berlin,'' continued Voll er mer, land as have already hinteC T. had Wilhelm II. been killed just the V- the whole future history of the Fla O. therland might well have been chang 1e ed. I for one believe that his deat SC would have led to an overwhelmin DO and irresistible demand for peace 'n practically at any price.
 d. "You must have some idea, Dick ot inson, of the privations we have ha u- to endure through lack of food" h ng proceeded. Well about the beginnin
 of August the patience of the workin ge classes was stretched to the limit The nd had reached the stage when talk rt
 specting victories fell upon matter h. tive ears. The glories of war ha ad gradually faded and become negligibl ad What the people wanted was food 1 sss fill their empty, famished bodie d. Scarcely a city in the land but ha
 it's experience of riots. Had the Kai so CT perished the discomfort of the ns ls- tion would have passed beyond 8 h. control, and the upshot of it all wou nd have been peace or revolution" 'e- German Hatred For The Crown Prfn,
 What about the Crown Prince
 Would he not have filled the ga on created by the loss of his father?" fife asked.
 In- LA sneering cynical laugh was Vol nler's immediate response. Then I