The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1919-01-03
| The Kaiser as | Knew lin
for Fourteen Ycars
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By ARTHUR N. DAVIS. N. n 5.


mora positive bre4f N1bmins thefM ThA
1ssigians wsFA sfmpay lEngisnd's tools r"
EoHs Of ~ argunl~ass the kaiser
raised In his discums&ns with me re-
gaSding ths VAR wsrk % weak and
untsnahts that ans n3xAt wall doubt
hin sincerity m sFgs4g chem. bat l
shah give tAsm fur what they are
worth.
~Thsy rsfsf n us al thu Huns !'' the
kaiser observed bist@riy. III your
people could sss what the Russians
have daes In tAa I3skXsina and east
srn Prussia tksy wstld know then
who are tho rsal Hs4nsi They do
stroyed svsrythla9 They could lay
their AaaAs on U aase at my shoot
Ing lodges which tAs Ctssacks entered
they even knocked out the teeth OF the
eoars' hsasls wAieA Assx 90 tie walls (!
with knives thsy euf ont the covers Of
my chairs. They Aasi special IRE
hombs which they threw on peaceful
villages. These kanl,s had been CON
strueted In peace tirues and were de-
signed solely for ptitMxe and dsstruc-
ton,
Instead Of tr~asiss their soldiers
as prisoners Of war We should have
strung them up by tho nsek-~eysry
one Ut them!"
| Several promin~nt Poles. who were
patients OF mins and whose hne es-
,ates la Poland were looted and de-
noisshesti told mo positively that the
destruction and depreda,iOns wer"
committed ea.!s~iy By ,tseryasn trugrs.
The Russians bid oeedp'ed ths houses
when they were In possession Of that
section of the counsry. bat IL was bot
aatil they were driven out by the Ger
mans that the acts Of vandalism were
committed aud they had convincing
evidaaee that In every case the Ger
man soldiers and net the Russians
were responsible.
The outrages c1tamltt~i by the Ger
mans In their treatment Of prisoners
of war will probably never be known
/ IN their entirety. We do know that
they executed Captain Fryatt the
| commander VI british merchant sesv
sci. who was captured after he had
mplmed German U.boat. / DOT
know 20 what extent The. kaiser WINS
/ directly responsible for that haStariiy
crime, but from what ha -AaiA regard
ing the capture of another British cap
tain. the commander Of the Rarslous
Il was quite evident ,ha; be was in
entire sympathy with acts Of that
| character.
A German Cheat had suak q Brit
tsh vessel upoa which wer, come OF
the relatives Of the crew Of the Bara'
long. The crew II this u.bcst was
subsequently captured by no Kara
long. and according b rspc IN Ia Ger
UNITY tiseY ~ere haSahay sr@Fsea. Then
It was reported that ths Ba,aloag ID
been captured and that ~ captain
and the crew wouA b. lummar!ly
dealt with
Il hear we have captured the cap
tain Of the Baralong." the kaiser de-
carcd to mo ut that ume. III We can
prove that he's the man we'll hx him :"
The manner In which tho kaiser
spoke left no doubt In my mind that
the dlres, punishment would be meted
out TO the unfortunate British captain.
Rooty Is undoubtedly a legitimate
!nci5ent OF war, but Il II legitimate
only "a an incident. Otherwise booty
hecomes loot. In any event. when In
yadtng troops seize private property II
Is customary TO pay for II. That ths
Germans wcrc good takers hu, poor
payers Ia >res saissi By twe incidents
which the kaiser narrated 10 the, and
/ the keen enjoyment he derived frnin
,heur can 10 fully understood ehly by
| those who kaew how much the kaiser
appreciates getting somc;hlag FOR
nothing
"Roumania wanted our gold Tor food
| products" he told me, They demand
~ nurr gold ana they set eaornous
prices ou their wares bat We Decided
what they had TO sell and we were
r'aty 10 pay even the Outrageous
priccs they demanded And thea they
tooltshly declared war against Us and
we gOt II all for nothing When !
spoke to UIndcnhurx about the CON
,y,i AZ Ron
MIA he said. This will be very later
ss;ang campatea.' II was We rns all
we wanted and didn', have 10 psy
peUay fer IL"
The kaiser heamed all over as he
contemplated the rvsaIts Of Rouna-
uia's entry In the war,
Wnen the German troops entered
/ raraspel. Russia, &, a later tine they
captured vast quantities Of American
made hospital sc.'riie.,
ave wecr iI4st figuring what this
sel,gre amounted ~ AMI Uly ARMY
doctors wets strucgRs arcrnd as II
( they cwued tse world" declared the
kasser, ~whea ore u ray otaecrS was
/ ep4ecAthci ey a gruep et lcDG h&l-sSi
/ grVasy Jews, waa claimed that these
/ supplies hslosesSi 10 them "Taey are
cur private property ; we tsyaEht thtys'
aaG VIZ sAaaia Re eansaasaIei II y0a
( sease tae1s .hcy yeasecdeyi Dsa yea
I gay foy tAsaT ny e31csr asSe Ne.
we a4aa'i r&s Ger ;Aeya. hv. se gave