The Cordova daily times., 1922-04-07
FIRMLY INDICATED INTENTION
 TO REMAIN."

lord to leave Spa, then German Gen. eral Headquarters, the Kaiser, until 10 o'clock on the evening of Novem- Der firmly indicated his intention to remain" the book recites.
 The author also states the Kaiser was unshaken from steady Hong dis ! tance telephone drum-fire" messages from Berlin demanding his abdication. When General Count Schulenburg bade the emperor adieu at 2 o'clock in the afternoon the Kaiser said: l q shall remain King of Prussia and won't abdicate. I shall remain with my troops"
 At four o'clock the Kaiser ordered l his adjutant general, von Gontard, to make accommodations at the Villa l Fraineuse-the Kaiser's private dwell ling at Spa-for his entire military suite, and also to stock it up with | arms, ammunition and a fourth of a | battalion of shock troops from the neighboring houses, where they were quartered. After making these plans for 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, the famous commander of the raider Moewe, who was then an ad- jutant Other adjutants who heard these orders, the author states, were Hirschfeld and Ilsenau.
 Then von Hindenburg and Admiral von Hintze, then Foreign Minister at Berlin, begged the Kaiser to consider his departure to neutral country in an extreme emergency, since his con- tinued presence with the army might become impossible. They told the emperor the situation was becoming worse each hour and that it would be indefensible eff the Kaiser were dragged to Berlin by mutinous troops and delivered as prisoner on the 5dFSlhiihSh'' iAiheHS , telephoned the Kaiser from Berlin,
 The Kaiser became highly excited, the author states. He immediately granted von Hintze permission to take steps for possible reception in Rol- land, but "clung desperately to the idea of remaining at Spa" At 7:30 p. m., when the Kaiser was riding to dinner iaboard the train, he told Adjutants Hirschfeld and Ilsenau:
 "PLL FIGHT SHOULDER TO
 SHOULDER"
 "If only few of my gentlemen re- main loyal to me I'll fight shoulder to shoulder with them to the very last, and if we are all killed I've no fear of death. Besides, would be deserting my wife and children Cf I fled). l cannot do that I remain"
 As he was sitting down to dinner aboard the train he told General von ! Gontard:
 q am going to stay with my army to the very last and throw my life into the balance. They are trying to make me leave my army. That's an un- heard of idea. It would look as if l were afraid. My wife bravely stops in Potsdam amidst the rioting there. I shall remain here."
 Prince Eitel Friedrich, one of the Kaiser's sons, had just telephoned lis father giving Hove and greetings from the Kaiserin," the author re- marks.
 Then appeared the man whom the author seems to blame for the Kais- CTS final decision, Counsellor of the Legation Baron von Gruenau. At 10 D. m. Gruenau called at the train s dining room and told the Kaiser he had been instructed by Foreign Min ister von Hintze by telephone and also by von Hindenburg to urge the Kaiser not to postpone his departure for Hol- land, since only by a quick surprise action would such a trip be success full. Gruenau told the Kaiser that all roads were blocked by mutinous troops tearing the epaulettes from their officers and that not even an auto could pass them and that further hesitation by the Kaiser would be fatal.
 ADVISED KAISER TO LEAVE
 EARLY.
 General yon Plessen, who hitherto had opposed the Kaiser's departure,