Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-20
THE KAISER AS I KNEW
HIM FOR FOURTEEN YEARS
By N d.
Copyright b Newpape indicated

the factS, Dut learned Afterwards
that four American newspaper cor
respondents had secured Germany
from one end of the country to the
other in an effort to run down these
reports. They left no rumor unin-
sestigated, no matter how far they
had to travel to verify it. When they
had finally exhausted every clue and
followed every lead. they had not
found a single case to- justify the
charge the Kaiser had made against
the Belgians. and which, of course.
the inspired German press continued
to report from day to day.
The object of these lies was to
Justify the outrageS which the Ger
mans were committing in their plan
TO terrorize the inhabitants of the
countries they were overrunning.
According to reports the activities
of franc-tireurs in the occupied
territories were met by the Ger
mans with the most barbaric pun
ishments, crucifixion and similar
atrocities being very common. I'm
doubtedly the Kaiser was aware of
what his soldiers were doing, and to
defend their conduct he lent a ready
ear to the unfounded charges made
against the Belgians.
II have already framed a message
which 1 intend sending to your
President regarding the use of
dumdum bullets by the Belgians and
French" the Kaiser went on. I'VE
have ample proof to establish this
charge not only in the character of
the wounds suffered by my soldiers,
but in the shape of unused cart
ridges which we found in the cap
tured forts"
Strangely enough, the Kaiser sent
off his protest to President Wilson
about the same day that President
Poincare forwarded a similar pro-
test based upon the use of dumdum
bullets by the Germans.
Regarding the violation of Bel
GUMS neutrality, the Kaiser was
able to offer no reasonable argu-
ment. The fact that he was willing
to pay Belgium for permission to
allow his armies to go through that
country was apparently sufficient
justification in his eyes for taking by
force what Belgium refused to sell.
"How foolish of Belgium to have
resisted us!" he declared, in this
connection. Had they consented
to let us walk through, we would
have paid them for everything
everything! Not a hair of their
heads would have been touched, and
Belgium to-day would be in the
same happy financial condition that
Luxembourg is"
At subsequent interview, we re-
ferred to Belgium again, and the
Kaiser alleged that Japan had vio-
lated the neutrality of China when
she sent troops through Chinese
territory to seize Kiao-Chau.
f, oil - oh fny IN o1Iiac tn
do these things" he commented
sarcastically, but when Germany
does them England rises up in
righteous indignation. The hypo-
| critics! Why we found papers in
Brussels which showed conclusively
that England and Belgium had a
secret agreement by which in the
event of war with Germany Eng
| land was to be permitted to occupy
Belgium! We've got those papers in
! Berlin. We could have no more
positive proof against them. The
Belgians were simply Englands
tools!"
Just what papers the Kaiser re-
deed, any such agreement were ac-
tually made and the Germans did.
| in fact, succeed in obtaining. them,
as the Kaiser alleged, certain it is
/ that the Germans did not know of
their existence when they entered
Belgium in violation of that nations S
neutrality, and as far as Japan's con-
duct with respect to China is con-
cerned, the Kaiser well knew that
| the passage through Chinese terri
| tory was not made in the race OF
n solemn treaty to respect the neu-
trality of that nation.
- 4, aVafC hn II q ar
| raised in his discussions with me re-
garding the war were so weak and
untenable that one might well doubt
| his sincerity in urging them, but I
shall give them for what they are
worth. y
They refer to us as the Huns!"
the Kaiser observed bitterly. eff
your people could see what the Rus
/ slams have done in the Bukowina
and Eastern Prussia. they would
know then who are the real Huns!
They destroyed everything they
could lay their hands on. In one
| of my shooting lodges which the
| Cossacks entered they even knocked
the teeth out of the boar's heads
which hung on the walls! With
knives they cut out the covers of
my chairs They had special fire
bombs which they threw on peaceful
villages. These bombs had been
constructed in peace times and were
designed solely for pillage and de-
struction.
| Instead of treating their soldiers
as prisoners of war we should have
strung them up by the neck-every
one of them
| Several prominent Poles. who