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II am going to stay here lat Spa,
Belgium, German general headquar-
ters) with nav army to the very last
and throw my life into the balance"
the kaiser exclaimed to General Won
Gontard, his adiutant general, the
evening OF November 8, the book
relates.
But a tricK was played upon the
war lord by Paron Won Gruenau, le-
cation counselor making the kaiser
believe his troops were mutinyinS
and might carry him to Berlin as a
prisoner of the revolutionary govern
ment. Then the kaiser capitulated.
The book is TO be issued to the pub.
lie shortly. What effect the dis
closures will have on German politi-
cal life Is rlatter of speculation,
but the author, in a militaristic Eref-
uce, gave his reasons ton writing the
book thus
81 considered It my damned duty
toward my cOuntrymcn."
General Won Eisenhart-Rothe cm-
phasized the volume was written
without fear or favor" and that II
Is based chiefly on secret inquiry
by court Of honor" composed of
the leading generals and statesmen
participating in the events or the
fateful NovcaioeI days" All state
ments quoted IN tn" book are On file
in the witnesses handwriting, II 10
stated. Part of the story is told in
the kaiser's own words, and thus for
the first time q record of events, cor
responding in some measure to tie
departure OF Napoleon to Elba, Is
given.
On November 8. 1918, Field Mar.
shal Won Hindenburg and General
Won Groenei. the successor of Field
Marshal Ludendorff. recited long re.
ports to the kaiser, in the presence OF
other distinguished officers. Won
Groener declared the army was no
longer behird the kaiser. The latter
replied sharply:
"{ demand this statement from
you and the tieId marshal i'm black
md white-but not until you have
asked the chief commanders and the
commanding generals"
Intended to Remain.
In spite of the most urgent
advice of Hindenburg and all other
members of the kaiser's encourage
for the war lord to leave Spa, then
German general headquarters, the
kaiser, until 10 o'clock on the eve
ming of November firmly indi-
Gated his intention to remain" the
book recites.
The author also states the kaiser
was mistaken from steady long
distance telephone drum-fire" mes
sages from Berlin demanding his
ebdication. When General Count
Schulenburg babe the emperor
adieu at o'clock in the afternoon
the kaiser said:
~ shall remain king Of Prussia
and won't abdicate. 1 shall remain
with my troops"
At 4 o'clock the kaiser ordered
his adjutant general. van Gontard.
to make accommodations at the
Villa Fraineuse-the kaiser's pri-
Vate dwelling at Spa-for his en-
tire military suite. and also to stock
up with arms, ammunition, and a
fourth of battalion of shock
troops fxom the neighboring houses,
where they were quartered.
After making these plans for a
possible siege, the kaiser planned
to dine aboard the court train and
to return to his villa at night and
communicated this intention to
Count Dohna. TIE famous conf
mander of the raider Moewe, who
was then an adjutant. Other adju-
tants who heard these orders, the
author states, were Hirschfeld and
Ilsenau.
Shortly afterward the generals
from G. II. Q. returned to the
Kaiser with an order again urging
him to leave. The kaiser greeted
them with:
Again Pleaded With.
Good Lord, gentlemen. are you
back again? I've written the
crown prince I'm staying with the
army"
Then yon Hindenburg and Ad-
miral Won Hintze, then foreign
minister at Berlin, begged the
kaiser to consider his departure to
a neutral country in an extreme
emergency, since his continued
presence with the army might be-
come impossible.
They told the emperor the situa
tion was becoming worse each hour
and that it would be indefensable
IF the kaiser were dragged to Ber-
lin by mutionous troops and de-
livered as a prisoner to the revolu.
tionary government" Hintze tele-
phoned the kaiser from Berlin.
The Kaiser became highly excited
the author states. He Immediately
granted Won Hintze permission to
take steps for a possible reception in
Holland. but "clung desperately to
the idea OF remaining at Spa"
Al 1880 p. M. when the Kaiser was
riding to dinner aboard the train, he
told Adjutants Hirschfeld and
1lsenau.
IF only n few of my gentlemen
remain loyal to Inc, III fight shoulder
10 shoulder with them to the very
last, and II we are all killed I've no
fear Of death. Besides, would be
deserving my wife and children III I
fled. i cannot do that. j remain"
As he was sitting down to dinner
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