The Washington times., 1919-11-15
THIS GIRL RADICAL
NEARLY GOT KAISER
Friend of Rosa Luxembourg Hid
In Thicket to Throw
Bomb.

AMERONGEN, Nov. 15.-Spartacist
agents, which is German for BoIshe-
vik murderers, hold more terror for
the dethroned Prussian Kaiser than
the combined armies and interna-
tional courts of the world and Incl
dentally they are apparently deter
mined to destroy the once mighty
War Lord before the entente nations
have chance to bring him to trial
Amerongen is visited almost daily
by new Spartacist leaders who have
sworn to wreak vengence on the
Kaiser for the wrongs he brought up
ION them when he occupied the Ger
man throne. But, though the Kaiser
is now only William Hohenzollern, he
is protected by q secret service or
ganization that is every whit as COM
plete as the force that once glutted
the foreign office in Berlin with in
formation from every part of the
world.
The presence of these agents is
the answer to the discontinuance of
Williams strolls through this quaint
little Dutch town and the reason for
the former monarch's recent illness,
which it is now known was more
serious than the outside world was
permitted to know. But ii was a girl,
a close friend of Rosa Luxembourg,
the dead Spartacist leader, who really
drove the Kaiser to the confines of
the castle. She came within an ace of
destroying the man who is held re-
sponsible for the woes of her COM
patriots and her country.
Agents from the Spartacists came
and went, each time their identity
and errand being learned by the
kaiser's secret service operatives.
Then one day a young woman, pretty
and attractive, reached the village.
She had friends in the place and her
passports were fiawless. Several times
she visited Amerongen and with each
visit the natural suspicion of the de-
tectives diminished until finally no
more attention was paid her. For a
time she acted the part of a bona
fide visitor to the place. Once she
was warned that it was not custom
ary for strangers to linger long in
the vicinity of Count Bentinck's cas-
tie and she studiously avoided the
place. During the period of waiting.
however, she laid her plans care
fully, and IL the natural nervousness
of a woman's nature had not asserted
itself at the critical moment her mis-
sion WOuI0 nave Deeu SUCCESSFUL.
Possessed of the knowledge that
william was in the habit ot~taking a
walk each morning, the young woman
eluded the guards and concealed her
self in a thicket near a spot she knew
the Kaiser was in the habit of pass
ing. William made his appearance at
$50 o'clock, the presence of the
would-be assassin being unknown. At
sharp pace he started in the direc-
ton of the thicket but when near IL
paused and turned sharply to the
right. To the hidden woman this ac-
tion indicated that her presence had
been discovered.
SUDDENLY a small black object came
hurtling through the air and exploded
at the edge of the moat, some dis
tance from where the Kaiser was
standing. The flying splinters of
steel did not harm William, but when
be heard the concussion he turned
deathly pale and staggered as though
he had been struck. Attendants
rushed to his side and hurried him to
the castle, where for weeks he raved
on the border of violent insanity 80
A score of guards beat the under
brush, but failed to discover the per-
son who had thrown the bomb. They
did discover, however, a small piece
of a shawl f1uttering from the twig