The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-14
How KAISER HAD
BURNED 100000
u. S. MAGAZINES

Philadelphia, Jan. 14.-How Ger
man warship put in at New York,
procured 100, 900 copies of the Century
Magazine containing. the famous sup
pressed interview of William Bayard
Hale with the Kaiser, and then steam
ed off, burning the magazines in the
ships furnaces, was told here last,
night by William w. Ellsworth, for
h1er president of the Century Com
pany.
| Mr. Ellsworth gave the first quota
tons from the suppressed article, and
said it contained arrangements of the
Catholic church and Of Turkey and
Japan which would serve the Allies
I in good stead could a copy of the ar
t:cle be found. Indications seem that
the last of the magazines were care
fully destroyed by the Germans who
paid full publication expenses to have
them out of the way.
At Cambridge, Mass, where a copy
of the magazine was reported to have
been sent to the Germanic Museum
alta Harvard, it was said no such copy
had been received. The suggestion
that Prof. kUno Francke, who was to
have been curator of the museum
which was never opened, may have
destroyed the article before leaving
Harvard, is said there to be unsus-
tanned by evidence.
Mr.. Ellsworth made the talk in
which he told of the interview with
the Kaiser at Witherspoon Hall, in
the University Extension Course. 1t
dealt with his memories of literary
linen with whom his connection with
the Century had brought him in touch.
He could only remember tW" exact
quo tations from the Kaiser
These were: Taft had the wool
pulled over his eyes when he was in
Rome, so that he made the arrange
n1ents he did with the Philippine fri
ars for their land Archbishop Ireland
is a secret enemy of America Mr..
Ellsworth said further:
''My recollection is that there was
no war talk by the Emperor, nor can
I recall that he attacked England. [
90 remember though, that he was es-
IDecialIy vindictiye toward Turkey,
while the attack on Japan was also
bitter. My only reason for reveal
ing the gist of the famous interview at
: this time is that We should do every
thing in our power to harm the EN-
, peror. I hear there is another copy
in existence somewhere, and II IS the
duty of the man who has 1t to pro-
Guce it and publish it.
His attack on the Roman Catholic
{ church was certainly no such inter
, view as any monarch should have
given, and a complete publication Uan
d., great harm to the Kaiser in Aus
trla, Spain and other countries where
there are great masses of Roman
Catholics among The nationals of these
nations
Regarding the story of the inter
view Mr.. Ellsworth said: t'In 1908 DR.
William Bayard Hale, then connected
. with the New York ZINES, went tc
Germany to get an interview with the
Kaiser. The Foreign Office there spe,
Gifted he should submit his article tt
!. it for approval DR.. Hale went to Nor
wegian waters and one night talked
with the Kaiser for two hours on the
deck of the imperial yacht
Submitting his article to the For
t efgn Office in Berlin, DR.. Hale was
2 re titled it was too sensational for use
. in a newspaper and should be giver
= to a magazine. He wired the Century
and we offered him 81, 900 for it. We
had the interview in type in October
for our December issue. On Oct
the Kaiser gave his famous interview
} | to the London Telegram phi, which Great.
= ed a sensation all over the world anG
= which the oreign Office tried to sup
= press"
4 ga few days later we were asked
Y to suppress the article we had in type
= and all expenses we had gone to were
/ assured. One of our men went to the
= printer and secured every plate, proc
r and printed copy of the interview, in
I Guiding 100 900 copies ready. These
y last were placed in a safe deposi
n vault while the other matter was des
:; troyed.
= ga few days later Mr.. Glider, the
O editor, was asked if he had any cop
lies of the interview. He told of those
: in the vault, and jokingly said the
e Germans should send a warship aftel
t them. A few days later a, cruiser ap
J. lpeared, and they were taken aboard