Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-09-26

JuHhcIS was any DeIler OH imam L ii
that respect.
While | was breakfasting, the kaiser
was dressing. His valet entered sew
eral times, | noticed, to take out arti
cles of clothing from the massive
wardrObes which lined the room. hat
just completed my meal when / re
ceived word that my patient was ready
to receive me.
AS | entered the ka,ser'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 l 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" he said, 81
have never suffered so much pain"
| expressed my sorrow and started
to imprOyise dental chair out of an
upholstered armchair on which 1
placed some pillows and, as the kaiser
sat down, he laughingly remarked:
Look here, Davis, you've got to do
something for me. I can't fight the
whole world, you know, and have a
toOthacheI''
When / was through and his pain
was relieved, his spirits seemed to re-
vive appreciably, and he explained why
it was he was so anxious to have his
tooth trouble removed as quickly as
possible.
Il 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
a feint. We had advertised our in
tended offensive in Italy so thoroughly
that the Italians thought we couldn't |
possibly intend to carry it through. |
For three months it was common talk |
in Germany, you remember, that the |
great offensive would start in October, |
and so the Italians believed it was all
a bluff and when we advanced on Riga
they were sure of it. 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
heir italian campaign.
For months Italy had been engaged
n planting her big guns on the noun
and gathering mountains of
and supplies and food and
hospital supplies in the valleys below,
n preparation for their twelfth Isonzo
ffensive.
ave let them go ahead and waited
for the right moment. They |
bought that their contemplated often
i've must inevitably bring our weaker
eighbor to her knees and force her to
lake a separate peaceI" By "our
'eaker neighbor' the kaiser, of course,
eferred to Austria, and how accurate
as his information regarding Italy's ]
expectations and how easily they 4
light have been realized We're subse- 7
uently revealed by the publication of '
lat famous letter from Kaiser Karl :
, Prince Sextus. n
"And then," the kaiser went on,
when their great offensive was within n
week of being launched we broke b
trough their lines on a slope 5000 V
let high, covered with snow, where a
ley couldn't bring up their reserves d
new guns. and we surrounded @
eml W
''We took practically everything they Il
enough to feed our n
tire army without calling upon our a
yn supplies at ALL Never before had q,
IT armies seen such an accumulation o.
ammunition. 1 must certainly go C,
'wn to see it. il
"We cut off their northern retreat W
ID, as they swung their army TO the al
nth, we captured 10000 of them up .,
their knees in the rice fields. One bl
the great mistakes they made was bt
carrying their civilian refugees with di
their narrow roads and &c
peding the retreat of their soldiers. be
e had taken possession of their msSt
regions, and their retreat h,
is through territory which yielded he
EN- nothing. Just think of that re- lis
Eating army thrown upon the already sh
poverished inhabitants of that sec
II. Why, they'll starve to death! he
we went we found FIR,
cir big guns abandoned. In one hi
all village we came upon a gun dec
tied with flowers and surmounted m.
In a portrait of Emperor Franz Jo- ci,
!. 1t had been put there by the 1tal- in
inhabitants of the village to show as
,ir happiness at being released at nj,
t from the yoke of the intolerable
liam lawyer government How ter No
ly the Italians must have treated wo
m! Italy will never get over this he
eat. This was real help from God %,
W, we've got the allies!" and he No,
uck his left hand with his right with 90
at force to emphasize his apparent /,
lviction that the turning point in D.
war had been reached with Ytaly's "