The sun., 1918-12-12
AIR BOMB JUST
MISSED KAISER
Royal Attendant Tells of En-
peror's Flight Into
Holland.
KISSED BY THE NATIVES
French Aviators Hang Over
Train but Run Out of
Projectiles.
KISSED BY THE NATIVES
Special Cable Despdtch 10 TIE srS from, the
LONDON Tirnea Ser1ice.

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THE HAGUE, Dec. 1.-THE fight OF
William the last" this Is the title Vor-
,oderts gives to the following writ
ten by the Kaiser's own attendant:
"On Tuesday, October 20, at a:3o r.
NJ. received an order 10 come iInme-
d!ately. I started, and suspecting
something approaching a departure.
took the necessary papers for jour
ney. When l arrived at the castle
received n commission TO prepare with
the personnel appointed to start for
Spain on n court train. arranged
at II o'clock this night provisions for
ten days from the castles war store,
where enormous treasures Of food OF
every description had been stocked.
and had them packed into the court
train. -
"On October 80 at 4 P. NJ. we en-
tered Spa The Kaiser, with his suite
of sixteen gentlemen and forty five
servants, continued to reside In the
train.
Kaiser just Missed Air bombs.
"On November the Kaiser under
took journey to the front at Alosst-
nord, Belgium. We left this station
after some delay. Had we remained
ten minutes more we should have been
no more, for ten minutes after the
court trains departure (the Kaiser and
some of his suite had left in motor
cars) the station was bombed by
French airmen and completely ruined,
also munition transport and hospital
train full OF sick and wounded.
"On the return journey we saw six
enemy airmen still above our train
but we were lucky, as they had thrown
all their bombs at the station.
When we returned to Spa at noon
OF November 4 we were informed that
we should leave that evening for Ber-
lin. Our Joy was great, but things
turned out differently. The Kaiser
had not complied with the request of
the General STAFF TO retire from Spa
as quickly as possible, as his presence
occasioned fears of the worst, but he
took up his quarters at Nillafroneuse,
where he previously had lived.
II had TO contend with all sorts "
things. because the courlers who
should have brought fresh provisions,
meat game, vegetables. &c, from Ber-
lin. had not arrived. What was I to
do? I told the court official he must
see that the necessary provisions were
obtained. This was done to limited
extent.
knew Wilhelm Was Fleeing.
ION Saturday. November .. at 6
Z. NJ, we received news that the train
OF the Kaiser was coming down and
that he, with all his suite. would re-
main on the train. What did that
mean? we asked ourselves. After
some reflection we arrived at the right
conclusion-flight. About 10 o'clock,
when the Kaiser had left the restau-
rant car, was instructed to have n
travelling breakfast ready at 3 o'clock
the following morning, the 10th, for
tho Kaiser and six gentlemen OF his
suite and about eight members of his
travelling service. I was told that a
first breakfast must be ready at half
past 4. At O'Clock the motors for
the further Journey (the flight into
Holland) would be ready.
THUS It happened the Kaiser left tho
train at o'clock In the morning and
Ned in motor cars across the Dutch
frontier We followed in the train,
reaching Eysden at 10 o'clock.
Scarcely had the train stopped when
we heard people In the factory situated
opposite the train asking the mocklng
question whether we wanted to so to
Paris.
"On Monday, the 18th, at o'clock
in the morning we left Eysden for
| Maarn via Maastricht. Our expe-
riences on this journey were simply
indescribable. Every single station
we passed swarmed like an ant heap
with people endeavoring to surpass
each other in bowling, kissing. holding
up their hands, showing their tongues
and splitting. We reached the Maarn
station at 3 In the afternoon. the