The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-08-21
TOWER OF LONDON
TO HOLD EA-kAlSER
Wilhelm IL. To Be Jailed In White
Tower During Trial. Walls Are
Is Feet Thick

London, July 12.-"Tower of Lon
don receives the EX-kaiser." At
some time in the not distant future
we may expect, it appears, to read
this headline, in staring capitals,
across the front page Of our morn
ing paper. Some fine day we Amerl-
cans who make our temporary homes
here. win join the vast crowd that
assureoly vii gather to try to snatch
q glimpse Of Wilhelm II, or his way
to confinement in the grim strong
hold in which so many famous hg-
ures Of the past dragged down from
their high estate, languished in cap
tivity and net their death.
And, a few days later, we may
again be struggling for u point o.
vantage in the throng that will line
the streets Of this metropolis through
which the EX-Kaiser is conveyed
from the Tower to Westminster
Hall, or the Royal Courts of Justice
or the grim Old Built by William
the ConGueror in 1918 decided that
the Butcher of Berlin" shall stand
his trial for the crime against law
and humanity with which ne stands
charged. -,
For, as all the world knows, it
has now been announced authorlta-
tively. that the Kaiser, on being sur
rendered by Holland, will be brought
to England for trial, and that the
Tower of London will be his place
of confinement. This would be suffi-
cient in itself to center worldwide
interest once again upon the famous
fortress, prison and former royal
palace whose long history is stained
with 50 much human blood, and
which so many American travellers
have visited at one time or another:
Now, however, comes the additional
announcement that the principal
German army and naval command
ers who will be charged with speci-
fc atrocities on land and sea soon
as the peace treaty is ratified, are
also to be confined in the Tower and
that arrangements are now beng
made for their reception there, "at
an early date" -,
The Kaiser, it is stated, will be
imprisoned in the White Tower,
which is the great central building
of the historic fortress, and its old
est part. Built by William the Con-
oueror in 1918, it is a nearly square
building, measuring 118 feet from
east to west and 107 from north to
south. At the corner are turrets,
three square and one circular. The
walls in the lower part are Is feet
thick, decreasing to II feet in the
upper story. Its main floor and its
famous dungeons were opened to the
public only so recently as in 1916.
The main floor contained the pri-
vate apartments of William the Con
oueror and it is probably there that
William the Defeated will be housed.
Beneath, in the crypt leading to the
dungeons, $4,000 rifles used to be
stored--representing London's chief
preparation for mobilization. 1t was
in the White Tower that Sir Walter
Raleigh was confined previous to his
execution at Westminster, and in the
stonework of its winding stairway
that the bones were discovered of
the little princes who were done to
death in the adjacent Bloody Tower,
by order of Richard Ill.
Arrangements are now being made
to fit up the White Tower for occu-
pancy by the Ex-Kaiser.: Suitable
furniture will be provided and rooms
will also be set apart there for one