Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14
THE KAISER AS | KNEW
HIM FOR FOURTEEN YEARS
BY ARTHUR n. DAVIS, d. ID. S.
Copyright 1918, Mcclure Newspaper, Syndcate)

harms way, dashed into his own
nome and was mounting the stairs,
with his hand on the banisters, when
one of the policemen, who had fol-
lowed the lad brought down his
sword on the boys arm and sliced
it off! The brutality of the police
man aroused a storm of indigna-
tion throughout the country, and
the press was constrained to make
every possible effort to ascertain
the identity of the guilty official,
but the authorities were so indiffer-
ent to public opinion that they de-
clned 20 reveal the mans name, and
to this day it has never been dis
closed.
Such were the people behind the
Kaiser when the great war started.
l shall never forget the sentiments
expressed to me by private indi-
Viduals in every walk of life as the
various phases of the war developed.
No measure that was taken by
Germany, no matter how atrocious
or inconsistent with the world idea
of what is permissible in civilized
warfare, ever brought a word of
condemnation from the German
public as a whole, although, of
course, there We're some notable ex-
NCpuOiS' Inc great UldJOTlIy OI
Germans who discussed these mat
ters with me, however, not only de-
Tended everything Germany did,
but complained because more rigor-
Gus measures were not taken.
Merely by way of example, and
not because her suggestion was any
worse than hundreds of others
raised by my German patients, I
may mention the surprising view
point expressed by the Countess
Sierstorpff, a relative of Won Hen
ckel-Donnersmarch. 1t was after
Italy had joined the Allies and when
German resentment against that ma
| ton ran very high.
What we should do at the very
first available opportunity" she de-
clared, is to destroy every single
work of art in Italy. Not a single
one of their landmarks or art treas
ures should be left standing. Then.
when the war is over and Italy no
longer derives the enormous revenue
she has been collecting for years
from tourists, she will be sorry for
| What she has done to Germany"
DID the German people coun-
tenance the submarine warfare and
the slaughter of innocent women
and children, in defiance of all rules
OF international law and the die
tates of common humanity? They
mad only one criticism to make
| or 1t - 1t was not comprehensive
enough! 1t was absolute folly, if
not crime, they said, for Germany
TO prescribe safety lanes for neutral
vessels to use. The whole world
should have been declared a war
zone that death and destruction
/ might be dealt wherever and when
ever the opportunity offered. Every
ship that sailed should be sunk, and
| every American who ventured with
in range of a German gun. on sea
or land. should be shot. That was
the universal sentiment.
The suggestion that continuation
or the submarine warfare would in
evitably bring America into the war
did not perturb the people in the
slightest
How can America do us more
harm than she is now doing?" they
asked. American bullets are shoot
ing down our men, American food is
sustaining our enemies, American
dollars are working against us in
every possible way. Let America
come into the war and give us a
chance to pay her back for what she
has done to u.s. She couldn't harm
us any more if she were a bellig-
erent. Why allow her to remain
neutral and go unscathed?"
Baron Won Bredow, an officer in
the army, came into my office,
limping.
inquired the cause of his injury.
Il have beeen on the eastern front
and a piece of an American shell
q h. tr.,N
of bitterness
How do you know it was an
American shell, Baron?"
I'VE could tell by the sound of
the explosion. The shells made in
the United States have a different
sound when they explode from
others.
l laughed at this suggestion, be-
cause it did not sound at all plausi-
BILE to me, but l heard the same
thing from a number of others.
Il got into a hand-to-hand fight
with a big Russian" the Baron went
on. HE pulled a sword and swung
at me so viciously that if he had
landed he would certainly have taken
my head off, but with the American
revolver which 1 carried in my hol-
ster 1 blew the whole top of his
head off. That American pistol
saved my life"
1t was a fact that, while the Ger
mans never ceased complaining of
their enemies using American fire.
arms and munitions, every German
officer who could lay his hands on
an American revolver used it as a
side arm.
Another high military officer who
had seen service on the Russian
front told me that the Siberian
sharpshooters hod been so active
and so accurate that eleven of his
soldiers had been shot right between
the eyes.
Ito Be Continued.)