The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-24
ALLIES KEEP
 CLOSE WATCH
 ON THE KAISER
Every PrecautiOn to Prevent
 His Escape.
KNOWN THAT PLOT
 TO ESCAPE EXISTS
Grown Prince Is Also Under
 Eve In Holland.

Behind all the colored statements of plottings that have been current regarding the Kaiser and the Crown Prince there remains the solid fact that a gigantic plot exists to spirit the pair out of Holland and back again into Germany. The German Junker and the PruSsian militarist still worship the sacred person of the War Lord and his offspring, and the men belonging to both or either class " ou1d willingly sacrifice their very soul to prevent either of the Hohen- Zollerns from falling into the hands of the Allies. Hence the letter of Ecthmann HollWeg to M. Clemenceau asking that he might be made the scapesoat and take the place of the Kaiser. Bethmann Hollweg's letter, while an honest and genuine one, is part and parcel of the Junker game
 to gain time. That Bethmann Hol- veg can be held solely responsible for
 the war is out of all question since, as German chancellor, he was not answerable for his actions to the Reichstag, but to the Kaiser alone. Apart altogether from the question
 of the personal guilt of the Kaiser, Bethmann Hollweg is one of the men who were responsible for certain ac- tions which constitute breaches of international law and one can scarcely
 conceive that he will be permitted to
 escape the responsibility and conse-
 QuenceS of these.
 The Prussian officers have, in their
 characteristically bombastic manner,
 taken an oath that If the Allies in
 sist upon the Kaiser being delivered
 over to them they will march over
 the Dutch frontier and rescue their
 War Lord. Little importance need
 be attached to this oath since Ho1-
 land, who during the war was ready
 to protect her neutrality, and actual
 ly maintained it, is equally prepared
 today to do so. If any desperate band of Prussians bent upon ''rescuing''
 the eX-kaiser invades the neutrality
 of Holland they will lind Dutch sol diers ready to maintain the frontiers of their Fatherland free from in vasion.
 Far more likely is it that ex-Kaiser who is but half an hours motor ride from the German frontier will steal away. It is a weu-known fact that the Allies are anticipating such Q development, and that they have taken all possible steps to prevent it's being accomplished
 It must be admitted that while no small amount of uneasiness exists re- garding all these plottings and pre- ! cautions against, far more anxiety is l caused by the ex-Crown Prince than i by his father.
 Recently I was at Amerongen, and
 saw the ex-War Lord. Few who | knew the ex-Kaiser in the days of his ! pomp and glory would recognize ia 1 the shrvelled, grey-headed, almost l cringing old man who saws wood in ! an outhouse a Count Bentinck's resi- ! dence the proud Emperor of Prus- ! sia, but, despite bitter disappoint- | ment, despite the stunning blow | which caused him to flee into Hol- i land and which has made a wizened 1 old man of him, behind these sunken | eyes there turks the cunning brain i of the schemer. He is being kept ds we'll informed regarding political af- | fairs as though he were in his Palace i at Potsdanl.
 i Wilhelm of Hohenzollern knows 1 the details of the pIottings which within the next month should bear i fruit, and he is ready for the signal | just as he was ready for the signal to ! leave his armies in the field in their ! hour of defeat and seek refuge Tn l Holland. From those who have fnti- mate knowledge of him and his ways
 I learn that he has no desire to re- l turn to the throne of Germany. My l one desire is that I may be allowed 1 to end my days in peace in my own | country as q private indivtdual," he declared less than a week ago to a { distinguished visitor from Berlin.
 ! Fully alive to the danger attendant on his escape, the Queen of Holland i sent her Consort upon a special mis-
 sion to the ex-Crown Prince, pointing g
 out to him the serious consequences his returning to Germany would have ! upon Holland, which country had | been appointed more or less his keep ! CT in hostage Little Wilhelm it is 1 stated on good authority, point blank | refused to give his word that he