The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-08-27

oh tNlS OC'USlpil, loWtNtT, WIS
guided right through the Shell room,
through door opening on the left and
up wide staircase to the kaiser'S
gardcrobc, or dressing room.
There / found breakfast ready for
me. L. consisted of real coffee, real
white bread, butter, marmalad". sugar,
cream and cold meats. IT waS the iirS.
food or the kind had eaten In some
time and practically no one in Ger
many outside the royal family and the
Junkers was any better off than / I'm
that respect.
While was brrakfasting. the kaiser
was dressing. His valet entered sew
eral times, noticed, to take out arti-
cles OF clothing from tho massive
wardrObes which lined the room. had
just completed my meal when l re-
ceived word that my patient was ready
to receive me.
As l entered the kaiSer's bedroom
he was standing in the center of the
room, fully attired In an army gray
uniform, but without his sword. He
looked more haggard than / had ever
seen him, except once in 1919. Lack
things with which he had had very
little experience, and they certainly
showed their effects very plainly.
He didn't seem to be in the best OF
humor but greeted me cordially enough
and shook hands.
"In all my life, Davis" he said, IT
have never suffered so much pain"
/ expressed my sorrow and started
to improvise a dental chair out of an
upholstered armchair on which L
placed some pillows and. as the kaiser
sat down, he laughingly remarked:
Look here. Davis. you've got to do
something for me. / can't fight the
whole world, you know, and have
toothachei"
When 1 was through and his pain
was relieved, his spirits seemed to re-
vive appreciably, and he explained why
1t was he was so anxious to have his
tooth trouble removed as quickly as
possible.
81 must go down to Italy, Davis"
he said, ito see what my noble troops
have accomplished. My gracious,
what we have done TO them down
there! Our offensive at Riga was just
feint. We had advertised our in
tended offensive I'm Italy so thoroughly
that the Italians thought we couldn't
possibly intend to carry il through.
For three months II was common talk
In Germany, you remember, that the
great offensive would start in October,
and so the Italians believed 1t was all
a hlt,f and .In, a
they were sure of 1t. They thought we
were so occupied there that we could
pay no attention to them. and so we
caught them napping"
The kaiSer's face fairly beamed as
he dwelt on the strategy of his gen.
erals and the successful outcome OF
their Italian campaign.
For months Italy had been engaged
In planting her big guns on the noun
tain-tOps and gathering mountains OF
ammunition and supplies and food and
hospital supplies in the valleys below,
In preparation for their twelfth IsonZo
offensive.
"We let them go ahead and waited
patiently for the right moment. They
thought that their contemplated often
sive must inevitably bring our weaker
neighbor to her knees and force her to
make separate peace!" BY "our
weaker neiglhDor" the kaiser. of course,
referred to Austria, and how accurate
was his information regarding Italy's
expectations and how easily they
might have been realized were subse-
quently revealed by the publication of
that famous letter from Kaiser Karl
TO Prince SeXtus.
And them" the kaiser went or
"when their great offensive was will !.
week of being launched we broke
through their lines on slope 1900
feet high, covered with snow, where
they couldn't bring up their reserves
or new guns, and we surrounded
them!
"We took practically everything they
possesSed-food enough to feed our
entire army without calling upon our
own supplies at all. Never before had
our armies seen such an accumulation
of ammunition. / must certainly go
down to see it.
"We cut off their northern retreat
anu, aS tney swung their army To the
south, we captured 10000 of them up
to their knees In the rice fields. One
of the great mistakes they made was
In carrying their civilian refugees with
them-clogging their narrow roads and
impeding the retreat OF their soldiers.
We had taken possession OF their most
productive regions, and their retreat
was through territory which yielded
them nothing. Just think of that re-