The sun., 1919-04-04
HOhenzOllern Tells Visitors
He Was Deceived to the
Very Last.
ANGRY AT DESERTION
Tells Friend Berlin Revolu-
tion Was Exaggerated to
Hasten His Flight.
H0NnEMNS IIrnENnnnI LII
CONDEMNS LUDENDORFF
Believed Italy Was About to
Quit and Did Not Know Aus
tria Had Collapsed.
BY KARL H. Won wIEGAND.
StdD Correspondent Of TIE SuS.

Copyright. 1919; oil righfs reserved.
AMERoSGEN, Holland, April 3.-The
Kaiser died hard" He clung tena-
clously to the thought that he would
again be Emperor and supreme war
lord, and would not give up the idea
for weeks after his internment.
That Is the testimony Of all who
see him or talk to him these days.
They add, however, that he has
finally abandoned hope. They say
his hair is white, that his eyes are
sunken and that his parchmentllke
skin hangs on his shrunken frame.
He now walks in the inner grounds
of Count Won Bentinck's castle,
dressed in slouchy clothes, so i'll At
ting that he gives one the impression
OF having already endured the worst
sentence the Allies could inflict upon
him.
One man who is close to him said
TO me the other day that the Kaiser
looked as il "he had fallen from the
clouds into hell" For weeks after
coming to Amerongen the ex.Kaiser
talked and talked and talked inces-
sanity for hours at stretch. But
since he has begun to realize that he
no longer. is Kaiser he has become
morose. He has dropping spells Of
long duration, with periods when he
does not talk at all.
Bitter Against Advisers.
When he does talk his theme is
what might have been" wherein
the word "if'' chiefly figures. "If"
he had known the facts. "If' he had
been properly informed. "If" he
hadn't been deceived by everybody.
"If' he had been told the truth, &c.
The Kaiser is incredibly bitter
against his former advisers, entour-
age and friends. He is the very per-
sonification Of hatred against his
statesmen and diplomats. When he
talks about them he becomes almost
violent and the very mention of one
Of their names throws him into a
rage.
The abandonment and desertion Of
him by all of those who once fawned
on him rankles deeply within him,
and he dwells on their cowardice and
ingratitude.
"They all lied to me and deceived
mel" he exclaimed. Every one of
them lied almost to the last. Not un-
til last September did Ludendorf tell
me what the real situation was"
"Cheated and Deserted"
=. The ex-Kaiser recently asserted
with great vehemence to visitor for
whom he had sent: "My Generals
| gave them the pour lie merit and
orders. covered them-the men at
the front and the men behind the
lines-with decorations, but they lied,
deceived and cheated me and then
deserted and abandoned me. They
are ingrates.
To the same man he said on another
occasion: "A General with 100 men
could have put down the revolution
in Berlin, but not one had the loyalty
and courage to lift his hand"
To understand the ex-kaisers bitter
ress against his Generals one has TO
read some personal narratives con-
cerning little Known details of dra-
matte events at headquarters on fate
full November Q. They were written
for archives which | have seen. After
all there is some dignity with the way
men leave sinking ship or abandon
n lost cause, but 1t does not appear
that such was manifest in the eN-
Kaiser's encourage on that day. With
the exception OF one man all dropped
away from him, one after another
and advised him to fee. They told him
900 Reds were marching toward
headquarters to get him, and finally
informed him they could not guarantee
his safety another night. They got
him out after midnight and bundled
him across the border at s In the
morning.
Later the ex-Kaiser learned that
much that was told him was not true.
He is said to believe that II he had
remained he might have saved the
situation.
HIS Brain Works Poorly.
Those who have seen him tell me
that at times the ex-Kaiser appears
dazed and unclear In his thinking. i
am told that recently he failed to rec
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