The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-08-29

food Of the kind I had eaten TN some
time and practically no one In Ger.
many outside the royal family and the
junkers vas any better of than I In
that respect.
While I val breakfasting, the kaiser
dressing. His valet entered sew.
eral times, Z noticed, to take out arti
cles Of clothing from the massive
wardrobes which lined the room. I had
just completed my meal when I 9
ceived word that my patient was ready
to receive me.
As I entered the kaiser's bedroom
be was standing in the center Of the
room, fully attired In an army gray
uniform, but without his sword. he
looked more haggard than I had ever
seen him, except once In 1915. Lack
Of sleep and physical pain were two
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.
I'm all my life. Davis" be said, Il
have never suffered 80 much pain"
I expressed my sorrow and started
10 improvise q dental chair out Of an
upholstered armchair on which !
placed some pillows and. az the kaiser
vat down. he laughingly remarked:
Look here, Davis, you've got to DO
something for mt. I can't fight the
whole world, you know, and have q
toothache!"
When I was through and his pain
was relieved, his spirits seemed to re-
vive appreciably, and he explained why
Il was he was so anxious to have his
tooth trouble removed al quickly as
possible.
Il must 30 down to Italy, DaviA"
he said, ITO e what my noble troops
have accomplished. My gracious,
what we have done to them down
therel Our offensive at Riga was just
q feint. We had advertised our in
tended offensive in Italy 10 thoroughly
that the Italians thought we couldn't
possibly intend to carry It. through.
For three months 1t was common talk
In Germany, you remember. that the
great offensive would start in October.
and so the Italians believed it was all
q bluff and when we advanced on Riga
they were sure of 1t. They thought we
were 30 occupied there that we could
pay no attention to them. and 50 we
caught them nappingl"
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.
1--WE let them go ahead and waited
patiently for the right moment. They
thought that their contemplated often
sive must inevitably bring III weaker
neighbor to her knees and force her to
make q separate peace" BY "our
weaker neighbor" 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 on,
"when their great offensive was within
a week Of being launched we broke
through their lines on a slope 5000
feet high, covered with snow, where
they couldn't bring up their reserves
or new guns, and we surrounded
themi
1--WE took practically everything they
possessed-food enough to feed n
entire army without calling upon our
own supplies at all. Never before had
our armies seen such an accumulation
Of ammunition. I must certainly go
down to see It.
1--WE cut of their northern retreat
and, az they 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-
treating army thrown upon the already
impoverished Inhabitants Of that SEC
ton. Why, they'll starve to deathl
Everywhere we went we found
their big guns abandoned. In n
small village we came upon a gun dec
grated with flowers and surmounted
with a portrait Of Emperor Franz Jo-
SET. It had been put there by the ltal-
Ian Inhabitants Of the village to show
their happiness at being released at
last from the yoke Of the intolerable
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