The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22

Whc ever heard of train getting in ahead of time these days?'
 During the course of my work one of his private secretaries came in re- peatedly with telegrams and messages for the Kaiser, and he would usually excuse himself to read them. Some times he would be summoned outside to consult with important persons who were there to see him, but he was never gone more than ten minutes at a time.
 SEEMED VERY TIRED
 I did not think he looked exception ally well. He seemed to be very tired and he had very little to say-in itself an indication that he was not exactly normal.
 When my work for the morning
 was over and his valet, who had as-
 sisted me, had been excused, the
 Kaiser gazed at me for moment
 or two and then, apprOpOs of noth-
 ing, burst out with the rather re-
 markabIe announcement. "The man
 who brought this catastrophe on
 the world, Davis, should be strung
 up by the neck, and that man is
 not I, as the world seems to think:
 The Czar of Russia and the King
 of England, when they were at the
 wedding of my daughter--guests at
 my own house. mind you, and my
 blood reIatives-hatched this plot
 against me. They were envious of my
 power, but they will learn
 what power is!'
 Almost in the same breath he made the inconsistent remark. England will never be able to raise an efficient army; it took Germany 100 years to ac- complish what she has doner' How ridiculous 1t was to suppose that the Czar of Russia and the King of Eng land could have matched plot winch neither of them was the least prepared to carry out and which Germany was apparently powerful enough to foil.
 Some time after this, one of the
 biggest merchants in Berlin told
 me that he had heard on the
 Stock exchange that the Kaiser
 had made the remark that the King
 and Czar had matched the plot
 against him, and I had repeated the kaiser's statement to no one, realized that he must have told the
 same thing to others. If this yer sion of the starting of the war was put into circulation with the idea of absoIving the Kaiser, it certain y didn't carry conviction even among the Germans themselves.
 The merchant who spoke to me
 about 1t, at any rate, made fun of
 the idea, and 1 never heard the
 point seriously raised by anyone
 else of influence.
 Before I left the Kaiser that morn- ing he spoke of the Anglo French loan which had been floated in America and condemned us severely for coun- tenancing it. When I told him that Germany had also floated loan in America, he replied: But ours was only s1o,000,0o0, while theirs is s5O.- oOO00 to which l naturally rejoined that the size of the loan could cer- tainly not affect the question of our neutrality in floating it.
 He criticised the bankers who ham died the loan, and when asked him if he had ever seen the number of Ger man names that appeared on the list of bankers who were interested in it. he said he hadn't read the list, but he was quite sure there was one bank in New York which wouldn't touch it. That bank wouldn't touch anything that would be detrimental to Germany P he added.
 INVARIABLY TOOK NAP
 In the afternoon, after the Kaiser had had an invariable afternoon nap. attended him again, and that night returned to Berlin. It was with regret that I left such a beautiful, restful place. for although Berlin in ar-times was almost death-like in its quietness. lit couldn't excel the army headquar- ters for restfulness.
 Several months later I was called to Pless again and the place was just as peaceful as it had been on my first visit. Not even the ordinary precau- tions which one might expect to be taken at place where the Kaiser was sojourning were enforced and I was allowed to travel the entire distance and to enter the palace without ever showing my pass.
 When got out of the train I saw one of the Kaisers motors there. I stepped up, spoke to the driver, had my bags placed inside and was about to drive off when another motor. with four officers in 1t, arrived. One of them asked me who l was and where I was going, and when I told him, he said | there must be some mistake, as the car I was in had been sent to meet some officers who were arriving on the train.
 While we were still discussing the point. a third car came mp and the orri- cer who had addressed me then ask ed the driver of the third car what he was sent for He said he didn't know: he had been told merely to drive to the station I accordingly transferred my baggage from the car I was in to tilis
  ace We went through the gates with out anyone asking to see my creden- tials The whole incident was a sad reflection on Germany,s boasted effi- ciercy.
 SALUTED THE DENTIST I was shown to the same room I had visited on the former occasion When the Kaiser entered he stood erect. with his hands to his side. clicked his heels together and saluted me as a soldier salutes a superior officer. smiling as he did so, and I knew he was in good humor.
 Nevertheless he had but little to say. His criticism of MT. Wilson on tLis occasion I have recorded elsewhere in these pages.
 Tn June of 1917, after the great army headquarters had been removed 10 Homburg V. d. Hohe, and Kreuznach ttwo neighboring villages) I was cali ed there to see the Kaiserin, and three weeks later went there again to see the Kaiser. I noticed at the station the Kaisers private train composed of five dark green cars upon each vf which was plainly marked the imperial coat of arms The cars had special folding steps.
 HAD GOOD MEALS
 Two rooms were assigned to me on one of the upper floors of the palace