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Dunn; practi- ) ir u has been ci? cf German sun?, seen eoneisieaur ii monasterv been use of its sacrea cr.ar-01 cr.ar-01 the wideiv tnorn Its donss fr g-od Tn Kaisers t-oorj stroved the Catholic OuTam and muraereci i o'ind In its precincts. t arUiiery target of i-.hedral cf Rheims. been snared bv thera us sacred character. ,'ry on iiont des Lsus is yi:h:n its precincts lies grave of a stnphnz related rs famuv Prmce iiax of , tne Kaiser a voongest Eister, :; ar .. That aone gives tne lore sacred character tnan s In Chnstendom. than all . ZLi the Allied and German irr land, rian army wul continue to Cats as long as the brave to snve np hu precious 2 15 a strange old. legend . Tvooded stones, sur- '-e of the most noted Trap- its in existence. The name "t of the Cats,'' an oid form iientica! Tvith the Englis'i B-Sed in place of the modern An exceedingly ancient that the hill -was inhabited 'ho were possessed by the - 4 men and women, and that t fanie into active conscious sct. : fc'iily named hill a company -(Conks, leading lives 'of the ssli-sacriflce and devotion, cr many years, turning it , irien of the most wonderful exorcising by their enligiu-j enligiu-j evil infinences of ancient 4 luab'.e have been their labors j 'h Government suspended in f. ' recent laws asainst monas- i, bound by a rule of peril per-il bat they are relieved from i upon to minister to visit-' visit-' f'itiial or physical help. e?nth day of Oclobr. 1014. ' o! 'ar had first begun to i"-rraan hordes that had " France and Belgium, a naraeoons unceremonious- ;--cm of the monastsrv on . Among them was a slim. '''.-naut. who received 'Mrranhis rank Jr- He was the Princo ' c-'r to the Landgrave oft it is ceiieved that somewhere vilhm the precincts of the great monastery the brethren under the direction of the venerable Prior lowered the young Prince's body to an unmarked rjrave, but no outsider knows the secret." Ht?? anl sor. of Princess Itavgaret of Pns-ia. ti;e Kaisers youngest sister. He and his companions belonged to tne Twentv-fourrh P.eelment of Hessian Dra-eoons Dra-eoons of tne Guard. The Princes exalted ranK d:a not prevent pre-vent him from fiounn? the religious ruies 0f the establishment and desecrating the b inding as thoroughly as he was able. He led his companions m a ribald sonz while the monks were endeavoring to say their regular pravers. and drank wine and feasted with his bacK to the consecrated altar. He eupped and Siept in the monastery monas-tery one nizht and staDled ais korse in the c-irel- In tne morning early his troop mounted and rodo away in searcn of an approaching enemy. During the day the German dragoon? met a superior force of English and were nearly exterminated. The engagement occurred oc-curred at the village of Saint-Jean Chap-e'.le, Chap-e'.le, which is at the base of Mont des Cats. The young lieutenant was carried back to the monastery mortally wounded. He received re-ceived the utmost care and attention, just as if he had been a Frenchman or Belgian, but he died within two days. Before he died the monks learnt his identity. They buried him. it is understood, under-stood, 'within the precincts of the monastery. monas-tery. I'"or some reason, perhaps because of "monastic rules, perhaps because of the power they knew the possession of the bodv would give them, they kept the burial place secret. It has been conjectured that the body has been buried somewhere deep beneath the foundations of the very extensive ex-tensive buildings and that it wouid be practically prac-tically impossible for one not in the secret to discover its whereabouts. The war was then entering on a critical phase for Germany. It was the period when she realized that she was balked of the easy victory on which she had counted. English reinforcements began to flow into northern frar.ee, and within a few months the vicinity where Prince Max of licsse lost hi? life became the centre of the most desperate fighting of the war. The British line was established at Ypres. a few nines pwcy. then, as now. a most important military" mili-tary" position. The battles that occurred iK-r'e in 1013 were probably the most sanguinary san-guinary of the wh'i'e war. The Kai-er was determined to break through at Ypres ant rr-ach Calais and the Channel ports, with the object of putting England out of be war. It is reasonably certain that at this ppriod he was more directiv concerned m the conduct of the war than he has been for manv months past- During all this fearful struggle not a shell fell on Mont aes Cats. The losses of the Germans in these eany attacks on i pres were not less than 400.-000. 400.-000. The celebrated Prussian Guard was facrlticed there in its tens of thousands under the eves of the -'War Lord. Probablv the desire to recover the body of the voung German Prince, the Kaiser's kmman. was one of the motives that spurred the meealomamac monarch in his franTlc assaults upon Ypres. One of tne first results of the capture of that city would have been possession of the Prince s burial place. During the battle the Kaiser had diligently prosecuted inquiries as to the last resting place of his nephew. He had been able to trace him no farther than the gateway of the monastery. He sent arrogant demands and then humble requests to the prior of the monastery, demanding that his representatives should be showp the grave and that the body should be returned to him. To these demands de-mands the venerable prior answered: "I will have no dealings with the devastator devas-tator of my country and the enemy of humanity." There were several reasons why the Kaiser should show concern about the young Prince's body. The dead youth was the son of the Kaiser's youngest and favorite fav-orite sister, Princess Margaret, fourteen years younger than himself. Her distress at the loss of her son was naturally very great and she importuned the Kaiser to recover re-cover the body. It has also been suggested suggest-ed that he was not unwilling to call attention at-tention in Germany to his personal bereavement, be-reavement, as the remarkable immunity of his five healthy sons from Injury was beginning to excite unpleasant comment in Germany. Strange to say. the Princess Margaret seemed fated to bear most of the losses in the Hohenzollern family, for in the following year her oldest son. Prince Frederick William, was killed at Cara Or-nian. Or-nian. in Rumania. Pau'led in his attempts to take Ypres, and equally bftuled in his efforts to recover re-cover the body of bis nephew, the Kaiser must have come to regard this locality as an unlucky one for him very early in the war. Many months of dreadful conflict passed and then fate once more brought the most Copyrife-ht, l?tS, by star Company. critical enaacp-ment enaacp-ment of ;he war within gun-shot of Prince Mai of Hesse s grave. It waB In the Sprmz of the present vear. The great German drive against the British lines near Amiens had spent Itself and immediately immedi-ately after that the full strength of the German armv was directed with enual desperation against the British positions posi-tions in the vicinity of Ypres. T f v T i' . 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Everybody knows that the English newspapers discussed the possibility possi-bility of not only evacuating Ypres, but also the Channel ports in its rear. The Germans stormed their way into dominating dominat-ing positions on two sides of the town. They took the very important position called Mount Kemmel to the south of Ypres. This Is one of the series of hills to which Mont des Cats also belongs. The latter is the fourth hill to the southwest from Kemmel. The Germans expected that they would take the entire series of hill3, and'Aflied sympathizers feared it. An important objective of the Germans beyond Kemmel was undoubtedly the town of Hazebrouck. an important railroad center behind the British line. Mont de3 Cats is almost in a direct line from Kemmel Kem-mel to Hazebrouck. The Germans had thousands of guns, largo and small, within a few miles of Mont des Cats and they could have Mown every building off its slopes. At this critical crit-ical stage a number of shells did fall on the hill. The chapel was considerably damaged, the adjoining buildings less so. This bombardment, however, did not last long. It was suddenly stopped and the hill with its sacred edifices was most amazingly spared from thera!n of death. It w-as evident that only the urgent persona! per-sona! intervention of the Kaiser could have brought about this extraordinary interference interfer-ence with military operations. At the same time lie made another desperate effort to recover the body of his nephew. Through the Pope he caused a long mes-Great mes-Great Britain Rights Kesorved. j - ) A IT Because the Secret Grave of. His Princeling Nepkew, Wkick Lies Hereakouts, Is More Sacred to Him Tkan tke TkousanJ Ckurckes fie Has 'Wrecked or a J Million Soldiers' Lives . sage to be sent to the prior setting forth his reasons for requesting his nephew's body. This message, according to a newspaper news-paper of the Hague, ran as follows: "Venerable Prior An anguished mother, my sister, asks for the return of the body of her son, the only consolation that can be given to her In this world for her great loss. Y"ou alone know where that body lies. At the risk of serious interference with our military plans I have given orders that our artillery shall not Sre upon your monastery, from respect for its sacred character and in order that your heart may be softened to grant a mother's prayer. I beg that you will make arrangements arrange-ments without delay through the Spanish Embassy to return the body of Prince Maximilian of Hesse. "I pledge you my imperial word that when you have complied with this request. re-quest. I shall continue to watch over your interests with the most benevolent care." To this letter of the Kaiser, according to the same authority, the Prior made the folio -ing reply: "Majesty You say, doubtless with truth, that an anguished mother asks for the body of her son, which is supposed to be buried .within our grounds. But what of the hundreds of thousands of other mothers who have lost their sons through your act and who will never recover their bodies? Yhat of the countless thousands 'of French and Belgian homes destroyed through your act: the women and children murdered TVith evjry atrocity by your soldiers, the churches and holy altars sacked and f-secrated by your command? I cannot ad nifty that ths sorrows of a prin 1 ; 4 cess, however highly placed, are of transcendent trans-cendent importance compared with all this misery. "When you have withdrawn all your soldiers from France and Belgium and made such reparation as lies within your power for the unspeakable evil you have caused I will reveal to you the burial place of your nephew and deliver his body to you. "Your offer to spare me and the property prop-erty committed to my charge from the perils of war is a matter of no importance to me. I am an old man and more anxious to bring about the end of the war than to lengthen the few years that are left to me. "In conclusion, may the mother be consoled con-soled with the knowledge that her son received re-ceived the same care as wounded French and Belgian soldiers, and all the spiritual solace we could give him." Every ecclesiastical influence within th9 reach of the Kaiser and his Austrian allies was brought to bear on the prior to Induce him to give up the body, but without ciianging his decision. It is assorted that the Prior is now the only man who knows the location of the grave, as the other monks wbv,we'.e present pre-sent at the time of the burial. This makes it additionally important that the German should not endanger his life. Once more the German assaults upon Ypres were beaten back. Mount Kemmel was held by them longer than the adjacent ' territory. but-Tneir offensive against this'"11 part ef-ffco line ijas none the less a disa; 'n trolls, sanguinary failure. St ill the f Jrri mail artillery continues to spare the sstery on Jlontjdes Cats. . '.rsiiin u |