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CHAPTER II.--continued.


'~vRf,en their great offensive was within
81 week of being launched we brok
sSfrough their lines on slope 800
seet high, covered with snow, wher
they couldn't bring up their reserve
ssr new guns, and we surrounde,
thsf5ss
seWe took practically everything the,
tsossessed-food enough to feed ou
entire army without calling upon ou
sssxn supplies at all. Never before hat
tsur armies seen such an accumulation
III ammunition. / must certainly e
down TO see 1t.
~W6 cut off their northern retreat
Wnd. a they swung their army to the
zsouth we captured 10000 of them VI
60 their knees in the rice fields. One
lsf the great mistakes they made was
sa carrying their civilian refugees with
CzfseIa-eiogging their narrow roads and
IsrMpexEing the retreat of their soldiers
Eve had taken possession Of their most
productive regions, and their retreat
xaS through territory which yielded
chem nothing. Just think of that re-
creating army thrown upon the already
Impoverished 1LUdDlldUtS OIL I0hL sec
Gaoa- Why, they'll starve to death!
Everywhere we went we found
Sheir big guns abandoned. In one
sszlzH village we came upon a gun dec
xxafed with flowers and surmounted
eSsh a portrait of Emperor Franz Jo-
sses 1T had been put there by the Ital-
asn inhabitants of the village to show
shear happiness at being released at
hast from the yoke of the intolerable
6safaaa lawyer government How ter
g71bIy the Italians must have treated
Ehess1s Italy will never get over this
dsefeat- This was real help from God
Now, we've got the allies!" and he
sarucA his left hand with his right with
great force to emphasize his apparent
-aaviction that the turning point in
ekfe. war had been reached with Italy's
collapse.
That the kaiser now regarded him.
self and his armies as invincible I felt,
sad L feared that the success in Italy
~aeuld be followed at the first favora-
e&e opportunity by gigantic offensive
GA the western front.
Indeed, on a subsequent occasion,
ees1en he called at my office for further
sreafmenf. and again referred to the
E@aIinn triumph. he remarked: eff our
armies could capture 100000 Italians
ard those 100000 might just as well be
lead as far as Italy is concerned-we
can do the same thing against our
enemies on the west!'
This was one of the interviews I was
sss anxious to report to the representa-
,zives of the American intelligence de-
narfn,ent at our legation In Copen- !
Eaa1en and. later on. when / finally ar
rived in that city, l related 1t in great |
detail to them. I remained in Copen- |
sagen eleven days and during the |
greater part of that time I was being |
interviewed by one or another Of the |
representatives Of our intelligence de-
Essrtment. Exactly two months later,
On March 81, the western offensive
broke out as had feared.
Il called at Potsdam a day or two Ia
ger TO attend the kaiser again, and
seuns1 him still In the same triumphant
mood, and so anxious was he to get
Ecx4 to Italy that he called at my Of
uns TO complete my work on his affect
ed tooth.
On November &c the kaiser called at
Eny office for what proved to be his
last sitting. I had received word on
Tire S3th that nay pass for America had
sseen granted and that l could leave
On the Both, and 1 accordingly told the
Ezafser that it was my intention to leave
eor Copenhagen on that day.
III explained that was completely
run do0-and certainly looked it
aa1 that 1T was necessary for me to
get To Copenhagen anyway, so that /
could get In touch with America re-
xarta1ng a porcelain tooth patent which
rad been granted. to me in July, 1915,
nut which a large dental company was
seeking to wrest from me. The patent
had delayed action because
II hse fact that resided in an enemy
sOn the 18th received letter from
he rourt chamberlain stating that the
2rcs5sseat Of police had made 1t known I
10 the kaiser that had applied for a
rass 30 America and demanding an ex-
uIanstion as to why had told the kali
er that had planned to go to Copen- c
lxxen and had not mentioned Amer c
Ca
1T once replied that 1t was indeed Q
ny Eafention, as had told the kaiser,
q g to Copenhagen, but that had :
applied for the pass to America be
muse 1 wanted to be in position to
% there II my patent affairs demand
d Il and / expressed the hope that c
Ipl1;isg would be done to interfere q
~ the pass which had been prom
- me for the 3Oth.
Nevertheless, the 3Oth came around
- - pass didn't, and the boat which t
uneA from Copanhagen on December b
. wssch | had planned to take. sailed q
unElAoot- me.
Aenin the weary weeks followed 6
- oGher without the slightest inti- j
na1Ds from anyone that would ever
- snl1Wo1 to loAve. Indeed, / had n
~ maAo - ~ min1 that tn AZ .