The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-09-27
CHAPTER II,-contInued.


a week of being launched we broke
through their lines on a slope 5000
feet high, covered with snow, where
they couldn't bring up their reserves
or new guns, and we surrounded
them!
1--WE took practically everything they
possessed-food enough to feed our
entire army without calling upon our
own supplies at all. Never before had
our armies seen such an accumulation
of ammunition. / must certainly go
down to see it.
"We cut off their northern retreat
and, as they swung their army to the
south. we captured 10000 Of them up
to their knees In the rice fields. One
of the great mistakes they made was
In carrying their civilian refugees with
them-clogging their narrow roads and
impeding the retreat Of their soldiers.
We had taken possession of their most
productive regions, and their retreat
was through territory which yielded
them nothing. Just think of that re-
treating army thrown upon the already
impoverished inhabitants Of that sec
ton. Why, they'll starve to death
Everywhere we went we found
their big guns abandoned. In one
small village we came upon gun dec
Grated with flowers and surmounted
with a portrait of Emperor Franz Jo-
sef. 1t had been put there by the Ital-
ian inhabitants of the village to show
their happiness at being released at
last from the yoke of the intolerable
italian lawyer government How ter.
rlbly the Italians must have treated
theml Italy will never get over this
defeat This was real help from God
Now, we've got the allies" and he
struck his left hand with his right with
great force to emphasize his apparent
conviction that the turning point in
the war had been reached with Italy's
collapse.
That the kaiser now regarded him
self and his armies as invincible felt
and I feared that the success in Italy
would be followed at the first favora
BILE opportunity by a gigantic offensive
on the western front.
Indeed. on a subsequent occasion
when he called at my Office for further
treatment, and again referred to thu
italian triumph, he remarked: IF oul
armies could capture 100000 Italians
and those 100000 might just as well b.
dead as far as Italy is concerned-w'
can do the same thing against oul
enemies on the west !"
This was one of the interviews / wa
so anxious to report to the representa-
tives of the American intelligence de
partment at our legation In Copen
hagen and, later on, when 1 finally ar
rived in that city, / related it in grea
detail to them. remained in Copen
hagen eleven days and during tn
greater part of that time was bein
interviewed by one or another of tn
representatives of our intelligence de
partment Exactly two months later
on March 81, the western offensiv
broke out as I had feared.
/ called at Potsdam a day or two Ia
ter to attend the kaiser again, an
found him still in the same triumphan
mood, and so anxious was he to &c
down to Italy that he called at my Of
fee three times that week to enabl
me to complete my work on his affec
ed tooth.
On November &c the kaiser called q
my office for what proved to be hi
last sitting. 1 had received word o
the Goth that my pass for America ha
been granted and that could leav
on the Both, and accordingly told tn
kaiser that it was my intention to leav
for Copenhagen on that day.
I explained that was completed
run down-and / certainly looked it
and that 1t was necessary for me
get to Copenhagen anyway, SO that
could get in touch with America r
garding a porcelain tooth patent whic
had been granted to me in July, 191
but which O large dental company wa
seeking to wrest from me. The pateI
authorities had delayed action becaus
of the fact that resided in an enem
country.
On the 18th received letter fro
the court chamberlain stating that II
president OF police had made 1t know
to the kaiser that / had applied for
pass to America and demanding an e
PLANTATION as to why had told the ka
ser that / had planned to go to Cope
hagen and had j { mentioned Anne
lea.
1 at once rep ID that it was indee
my intention, 81 had told the kaise
to go to Copenhagen, but that l hs
applied for the pass to America b
cause / wanted to be in a position
go there If my patent affairs deman
ed it and expressed the hope TIL
nothing would be done to interfel
with the pass which had been prof
Used me for the 30th.
Nevertheless, the 30th came arouI
and the pass didn't, and the boat whi'
sailed from Copenhagen on Decemb
Z. winch / had planned to take, sails
without me.
Again the weary weeks follow'
Noch other vrithout the SLIGHTEST I'M