The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1919-03-06
CHAPTER iI.-continued.

feet high, covered with snow, where
they couldn't bring up their reserves
or new guns, and we surrounded
themi
I'VE took practically everything they
possessed-food enough to feed our
entire army without calling upon our
w supplies at all. Never before had
our armies seen such an accumulation
OF afnn milton. / must certainly 20
down to see II.
1--WE cut OF their northern retreat
south, we captured 90 900 Of them up
TO their knees in the rice fields. One
OF the great mistakes they made was
In carrying their civilian refugees with
Thanksgiving 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 DEATH
Everywhere we went we found
their big gun abandoned. In one
small village we came upon n gun dec
Grated with flowers and ~surmounted
with a portrait of Emperor Franz Jo-
SET. IT had been put there by the Ital-
ian inhabitants of the village to show
their happiness at being released at
last from the yoke of the intolerable
italian lawyer government How ter.
ribly the Italians must have treated
them Italy VIII never get wei this
defeat. This was real help from God
Now, we've got the allies" and he
struck his left hand with his right with
great force to emphasize his apparent
conviction that the turning point In
the war had been reached with Italy's
collapse.
That the kaiser now regarded him.
self and his armies as invinclble l felt,
and l feared that the success in Italy
would be followed at the first favora.
BILE opportunity by n gigantic offensive
on the western front.
Indeed. on a subsequent occasion,
when he called at my Office for further
treatment, and again referred to the
Italian triumph, he remarked IF our
armies could capture 300, 1000 Italians
and those 100000 might Just as well be
dead as fur as Italy is commemorative
n do the same thing against our
enemies on the west"
This was n Of the interviews ! was
60 anxious to report to the representa-
tives Of the American intelligence de-
partment at our legation In Copen-
hagen and, later on. when I finally mr.
rived In that city, l related It In great
detail to them. ! remained In Copen-
hagen eleven days and during the
greater part OF hat time l was being
interviewed by n or another OF the
representatives Of our intelligence de-
partment. Exactly two months later,
on March 81. the western offensive
"rHke out as | had feared.
i called at Potsdam n day or two la
ter TO attend the kaiser again, and
found him still In the same triumphant
mood, and so anxious was he to get
down to Italy that he called at my Of
fce three times that week to enable
me to complete my work on his affect
ed tooth.
On November 20 the kaiser called a.
my Office for what proved to be his
last sitting. I had received word on
the 10th that my pass for America had
been granted and that | could leave
on the 30th, and I accordingly told the
kaiser that II was my intention to leave
for Copenhagen on that day.
/ explain ID that ] was completely
run down-and I certainly locked it
and that It was necessary for me to
get to Copenhagen anyway, so that /
could get In touch with America re-
gardins q porcelain tooth patent which
had been granted to me In July, 1915.
but which q large dental company was
seeking to wrest from me. The patent
authorities had delayed action because
OF the fact that I resided In an enemy
country.
On the 2sth I received a letter from
the court chamberlain stating that the
president of police had made II known
to the kaiser that l had applied for a
pass to America and demanding an ex.
PLANTATION as to why ! had told the kali.
ser that I had planned to 60 to Copen-
hagen and had not mentioned Amer
lea.
at once replied that II was indeed
my intention. a. I had told the kaiser,
to go to Copenhagen. but that / had
applied for the pass to America be-
cause 1 wanted to DO IN q position to
so there II my patent affairs demand
ed II and I expressed the hope that
nothing would be done to interfere
with the pass which had been prom
ised me for the 30th.
Nevertheless. the 30th came around
and the pass didn't. and the boat which
sailed from Copenhagen on December
2, which ! had planned to take. sailed
without me.
Again the weary weeks followed
each other without the slightest inti-
nation from anyone that I would ever
be allowed to leave. Indeed. I had
fully made CD my mind that the au-
thorities had decided to keep me In