Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-09-20


great force to emphasize Il aprarent
conviction that the turRins point ia
the war had been reached with ltaly's
collapse.
That the kaiser now regarded him.
self and his armies as invinciEle feit,
and feared that the success in Italy
would be followed at the FIRST favora-
BILE opportunity by q gigantic offensive
on the western front
Indeed, on q subsequent occasion,
when he called at ny ofice for further
treatment, ara again referred to the
Italian triumph, rs remarked: If cur
armies could capture 3Co,C0o Italians
and those 100000 might just SIS we'll be
dead as far as italy IS ccncerHed-we
can DO the same thing against our
enemies on the vest"
This was che Of the interviews l was
so anxious to report to the representa-
| tives of the American intelligence de-
partment at our legation in Copen-
hagen and, later On, when I finally az
rived IN that city, related it in gre:
detail to them. I remained in Cope
hagen eleven days and during u
greater part of that time I was bei!'
interviewed by one or another Of til.
representatives of our intelligence de-
partment. Exactly two months later,
on March q, the western offensive
broke out as had feared.
called at Potsdam day OR two Ia
ter to attend the kaiser again, and
found him still in the same triumphant
mood, and so anxious was he to get
down to Italy that lie called at my Of
fee three times that week to enable
me to complete my work on his affect
ed tooth,
On November 20 the kaiser called at
my office for what proved to be his
last sitting. I had received word on
the Goth that my pass for America had
been granted and that I could leave
on the 30th, and accordingly told the
kaiser that it was my intention to leave
for Copenhagen on that day.
I explained that I was completely
run down-and I certainly looked it
and that it was necessary for me to
get to Copenhagen anyway, so that
could get in touch with America re-
:.arding porcelain tooth patent which
had been granted to me in July, 1919,
but which a large dental company was
seeking to wrest from me. The patent
authorities had delayed action because
| of the fact that resided in an enemy
country.
Ga the 18th I received letter from
the court chamberlain stating that the
president Of police had made it known
to the kaiser that I had applied for a
pass to America and demanding an ez-
PLANTATION as to why I had told the kali
ser that I had planned to go to Copen-
hagen and had not mentioned Amer
lea.
1 at once replied that 1t was indeed
my intention, as had told the kaiser,
to 60 to Copenhagen, but that l had
| Qppllcu ICE TIE pass " |1ii-Sii>@ -
cause wanted to he IL position TO
go there if my patent affairs demand
ed it and I expressed the hope that
nothing would be done to interfere
with the pass which had been prom
ised me for the seth.
Nevertheless, the Both came around
and the pass didn't, and the boat which
sailed from Copenhagen on December
7, which I had planned to take, sailed
without ne.
Again the weary weeks followed
each other without the slightest lntl-
nation from anyone that would ever
be allowed to leave. Indeed, had
fully made UP my mind that the aus
thorities lad decided to keep ne IN
Berlin for reasons Of their own ana
that nothing l could do could mend the
situation, when, early in January, re-
ceived the joyous tiaings that l could
leave January 21-23. left on the
ODD, and as far as I have since been
able to ascertain was the last Amer
lean male to leave Germany with the
| consent of the officials.