The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-01-24

, During inc course Of my work on
t of his private secretaries came In N
peatedly with kilograms and message
i for the kaiser. and he would usual,
, excuse himself and read them. Some
times he would be summoned OUTSIDE
to consult with Important persons VIII
} were there to see him, but he wal
never gone more than ten minutes 1t I
time.
did not think he looked exception
ally well. He seemed to be very tired
and he had very little to say-in itselt
an indication that he was not exactly
normal.
When my work for the morning wa
over and bis valet, who had assisted
me. had been excused, the kaiser
gazed at me for a moment or two and
then, apropos of nothing, burst out
with the rather remarkable announce
ment: 1.-THE man who brought this
catastrophe on the world, Davis,
should be strung up by the neck, and
that man Is not l. as the world seems
to thinki The car Of Russia and the
king Of England, when they were at
the wedding of my daughter-guests
at my own house. mind you, and my
blood relatives-hatched this plot
against me. They were envious of
my power, but they will now learn
what that power u.s."
In the same breath almost he made
the inconsistent remark: England
will never be able to raise an efficient
army; 1t took Germany one hundred
years to accomplish what she has
doner"
Some time after this, one Of the big
gest merchants In Berlin told me that
he had heard on the stock exchange
that the kaiser had made the remark
that the king and car had Matched
the plot against him, and as I had
repeated the kaiser's statement to no
one, realized that he must have told
the same thing to others. If this YER
sion of the starting of the war was put |
into circulation with the Idea Of alb |
solving the kaiser, 1t certainly didn't /
carry conviction even among the Ger
mans themselves. The merchant who
spoke to me about 1t, at any rate, made
fun of the idea, and never heard the
point seriously raised by anyone else
Of influence.
Before l left the kaiser that morn
Lag he spoke Of the Anglo-French loan
which had been floated In America
and condemned us severely for coun.
tenancing it. When 1 told him that
Germany had also foated a loan In
America, he replied: "But ours was
only S10,OOO.OO0, while theirs is $780,.
)OO,OO0" to which 1 naturally rejoined
hat the size Of the loan could Ger.
:ainly not affect the question Of ouI
neutrality In floating 1t.
He criticized our bankers who han
lied the loan, and when asked him II
le had ever seen the number of Ger
nan names that appeared on the list
+ bankers who were interested In It,
70 said he hadn't read the list, but he
vas quite sure there was one bank In !
Jew York which wouldn't touch It
That bank wouldn't touch anything 9
hat would be detrimental to Ger q
lanyi" he added. L
Several months later I was called q
, Pless again and was shown to the q
anne room had visited on the former 5
ccasion. When the kaiser entered he b
.ood erect, with his hands to his side, L
licked his heels together and saluted Is
e as soldier salutes a superior Off. e
Il, smiling as he did 30, and knew G.
: was In good humor. Il
Nevertheless he had but little to say g.
Is criticism of Mr.. Wilson on this oc tt
sion I have recorded elsewhere In a
ese pages. u
In June Of 1917, after the great army
had been removed to
omburg v. d. Hohe. and Krenznach
wo neighboring villages) was called ge
ere to see the kaiserin, and three to-
,eks later I went there again to see
g kaiser. / noticed at the station the Ia
iser's private train composed Of I'VE
rk green cars upon each Of which
Is plainly marked the imperial coat
arms. The cars had special folding gel
,ps.
Two rooms were assigned to me on lie
e of the upper floors Of the palace
d my meals consisted of the same -
Id Of food as I had always had be-
e the war, although the hunger cpl.
mic was raging throughout the coun.
!. It was almost worth the trip for
. sake of the meals alone. =
after had treated the kaiser in the
rning went to my rooms, as l knew |
would be three o'clock before he
uld be ready for me again. He never
owed anything to interfere with hts
er-dinner nap.
(To BE CoNTINUED) r