Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-16

sity was greatest, the Kaiser always
put on brave front. At such times
l have seen him stop in the street,
after leaving my office, and before
the hundreds of people waiting out.
side to greet him, ostentatiously PIT
a cigaret in his mouth and light it.
that everyone might notice how
steady his hand was and how little
he was worried by the turn thinga
were taking.
AT the same time, on one or two
occasions after, thn war started, 1
noticed that he acted differently
when in the dental chair than had
been his custom when everything
was serene.
Before the war, he would talk to
me incessantly during my work
whenever it's nature enabled him to
do so, and yet when l was all
through and had hammered the last
piece of gold into his tooth, which
sometimes made instead of a cast
inlay. and announced. Now, your
Majestry, I am through" he would
frequently remark:
do you know. Davis. you ham
mered exactly 135 pieces of gold
into that tooth. l counted them"
After the war; however, he paid
little attention to what l was doing
for him. and I assumed that his
mind was far away, turning over
perhaps some of the dire problems
with which his people were beset.
or contemplating some OF the misery
he had caused, and I did not dis
turb his reflections.
The Kaiser once boasted to me
that not a building was erected in
q H.. h,,s1 ~
street opened, not park laid out,
but what the project was first sub
mitted to him! He kept posted on
everything that was going on. not
only in Germany, but in the world
at large, and, as far as he was able,
he endeavored to have his finger in
every development of worldwide
Importance. 1 cannot imagine that
he was less interested in what his
Countrymen We're doing in connec-
ton with the war than he was in
their achievements in time of peace.
If. he did not actually order the
sinking of the Lusitania. therefore,
am convinced that he was thor
oughly aware of the plan to blow it
up and sanctioned it. That he could
have averted it If he had been
prompted to do so is clearly indi-
Gated by another incident which left
a very deep impression upon me.
I was informed by one of the Ger
man aviators that plans had been
made to drop gas bombs on London
which contained a deadly gas which
would penetrate the cellars of
houses in which civilians were in
the habit of hiding during air raids.
Shortly before this hideous idea
was to be put into effect the papers
announced that bombs of this char
acter had been dropped by the allies
on Baden-Baden, but that, FORUM
ateIy, they had fallen in a clunp of
woods in the center of the town and
had failed to explode, which had
given the Germans an opportunity
to take them apart and ascertain
their nature
The purpose of this announce
ment, of course, was to forestall the
storm of condemnation which the
Germans knew would follow their
use of the bombs on London-a
ruse which they had invariably en-
ploYed whenever they contemplated
sonic fresh violation of the rules of
international law and the dictates
of humanity.
1t happened that one OF my pa
tients who resided in Baden Baden
called to see me the day after the
bombs had been dropped on her
town. and she told me all about it.
THE aeroplanes which dropped
the bombs had been flying over the
city all the morning" she declared.
I'VE thought they were our own
machines out for practice and paid
TO particular attention to them.
Then they dropped the bombs and
they landed in the woods, and we
knew we had been attacked. What
dreadful thing for them to do"
What a foolish thing for. allied
aeroplanes to do-to spend whole
morning studying the layout of the
town and then to drop those deadly
bombs on a clump of woods where
they could not possibly hurt anyone,
and how careless of the Germans
not to molest them while they were
engaged in their devilish work!
But the point I wanted to brins
out was this: these gas bombs were
never used on London!
"Just as everything was in readi-
ness for the raid" the officer told
me regretfully, I'VE received orders
direct from the Kaiser to hold off
] saw his signature to the order.
OF course, there was nothing for us
to do but comply, but if we had
had the Kaiser there, I believe we