| Show F Former Kaiser Still Impenitent Man Laughs at t the Suggestion of Trial By Dy Harold What I am about to write of ot the former German kaisers kaiser's opinions opinions' I should have been able to write in the form of ot a conversation but for tor the ex-emperor's ex determination to remain remaina a private person and to do nothing which might give him a moments moment's appearance appearance appearance ap ap- ap- ap of or wishing to interfere with the present government In Germany German r I am conscious above everything else of or Amerongen's indifference to the notorious man whoso presence here has conferred upon I It worldwIde worldwide worldwide world world- wide fame tame Amerongen castle is a castle only In name It Is an unimpressive rather tather sombre red brick house standing In so thick a companionship of ot trees that it looks expressly made for for a ghost stor story of ot Edgar Allan Poe jf Sunday Sunda N NoVember vember 10 10 1918 1913 C t it t Godard Bentinck In his castle a at Amerongen was confronted by a domestic crisis Half Halt of his servants were down with Influenza the other half were r recovering from the same samo malady and a shooting party was expected at the tho castle In a few days What should he do He had been to church eaten his Sunda Sunday luncheon and was In a reflective mood He He thought things out and decided to put ort oft his party Hears of Kaisers Kaiser's I Flight to Holland As he reached this decision the telephone rang This was at 2 Ho He went to the telephone and avid found himself addressed by the 1 governor go of oC the province The governor governor gov gov- Informed him that the kaiser 1 ha had fled from Germany had crossed Into Dutch territory had been held Up by a sergeant and a private soldier sol sol- dier dior and that the Dutch government suddenly confronted with this critical affair would be exceedingly obliged If Count Godard received the kaiser for a few days das while they turned about and considered what should be bedone bedone bedone done with him Count Godard replied that It was hn Impossible for him to receive the kaiser and explained his domestic crisis The governor brushed the Influenza in influenza influenza In- In aside as s a thing not to be mentioned In such a situation I Count Godard weakened and ald said he lie Would consult his children The children thought the matter might be managed The end of ot it was that next day the kaiser and his suite were received into Amerongen castle and Cou Count t Godard rd provided dinner for forty five persons Not Old l Friend Frind of or l Monarch lonarch The two days ays have now lengthened Into twice as many months and the ther problem r of ot the ox-kaiser's ox domicile is still Mill Unsettled It Is thought b by a an n number of or people that Count Godard offered Ter d the kaiser miser the tho hospitality of his house and that ho is an old and intimate friend of or the emperor This is not true Count Count Godard had seen the former emperor but hut once and this was in the days das when the kaiser was Prince William The emperor on hearing that he ho was to be he received at Amerongen castle looked up Count Count Godard's record to discover his his' relation with the house of Bentinck The The two men host and anti guest met guest mel as absolute strangers on November 11 11 I Invite you ou to think of the element In this historic event the event the great and powerful powerful powerful power power- ful German emperor held up by a sergeant and a private of ot the Dutch army looking up Count Bentinck to discover the quality of his Jailer i All i li IU highest Still SUll Impenitent Sinner The former kaiser Is entirely impenitent Im im- penitent He lIe is la not only convinced of his innocence Innocence Innocence-he he sees himself as one who strove harder than any man manIn mani i In the world to avert war As for be be- put on trial ho lie laughs at such an Idea There is no power on earth that can tr try him If he tho thought he was to be arraigned before an International international Inter Inter- national tri tribunal unal he would destroy himself not out of any fear of or the result of or such a a trial but because he heS s S would regard such an ordeal as una un- un f f a dignified he says I am am answerable for or my conduct only to God and God knows how I strove to my own peril perU the peril of my throne to avert the calamity of war He Hit does not often orten protest his Inno Inno- cence It Il Is a more frequent occur- occur e i hi his paTi tae part press amaze maie- maie ment cut at al the opinions of f those who regard regard regard re re- re- re gard him as the guilty cause of at the war Questioned as to any plot on the p part rt of or Germany he be said It was with the consent of his war minister yr tha that Germany manufacturer of muyr munitions mu mu- supplied Russia in the early days of 1914 with machine guns riles rifles arid and rounds of ot ammunition days War Came as M Result Diplomacy I did not want as Nicholas did not want war Ge George rge did not Dot want he with No war says sas energy ruler wanted war waT We were all dead against the war The war wal was made by the diplomats The Tho nole guilt of the war rests on Oll the tiro Russian government government government gov gov- and there were s secret cret forces at work in In the Russian gov gov- t. t His Ills argument nt Is that the tho rivalry In the Balkans between Russia and Austria led to the conflict of ot 19 1914 H. H Russia Hussla was wu beginning to get upon her hor into deC decay de de- feet Austria was falling C cay Y France was financing Russia England had hail assured Russia of ot her friendship The finances of Russia and her army organization were In a comparatively sound Bound condition and the Russian government feeling itself it itself itself it- it self thus powerfully buttre buttressed decided decided decided de de- that the hour was ripe for a definite contest with the worm eaten empire of Austria Germany was drawn into the war because s she e was plc pledged ged to defend Austria against Russian aggression and because she sho herself could not he be Insensible to the increasing menace of f Russian t ty Xo Xu War Part Party In He lie Says He lie denies with a kind of fierce ridicule ridicule ridicule ridi ridi- cule the charge that there was any war party part partIn In the Ger nan Geman nan empire He quotes with fiery energy the statement statement statement state state- ment of or Lloyd Llod George that Germany was teas Just as much entitled to her large army as England to to her strong navy He lie says he was surrounded surrounded surrounded sur sur- rounded by enemies He asks what England would have done in Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's geographical position with France financing Russia in order that she should build strategic railways to the Bernhardi he declares was scarcely scarce scarce- I ly heard of ot in Germany before English English English Eng Eng- lish translations of ot his Ws works had made him a kind of military Shakes Shakes- peare The people of at Germany desired desired de de- de- de sired peace the jingoes were a small party among the serious statesmen of the fatherland There was fear of Russian aggression but no movement toward a war of ot defense Resents Cha Charges es of or War Atrocities Asked why he lie did nothing to enter the entente he lie replied that he could not trust Russia The entente seemed seemed seemed seem seem- ed to him an organization of tremendous tremendous dou dous power aimed directly at the German Gelman empire and inspired by fear of German industry and envy of ot German German Ger- Ger man iian prosperity He was governed In some measure In this respect by hi his hla feelings toward Edward VII He Heays ays- ays ays Queen Victoria warned him against the Influence of ot Edward Dont have havo anything to do with him him lim she would say lie He will do you no good intellectually morally or socially He was antipathetic to Edward and this overflowed into their political cal relations He protests his love of England and is never tired of ot talking talk talk- ing ng about his English friends He said the famous Kruger telegram which made him so many enemies in England was sent against his wishes He says that Prince Hohenlohe insisted insisted ted upon the dispatch of this telegram telegram tele tele- gram telling him the reichstag desired desIred de- de sIred that Germany should express sympathy with the attacked Boers lIe He is emphatic In his declaration that he did not wish to send that telegram and sent it eventually with sharp regret As to the tho character of the war war he hotly holh resents the charge of at organIzed organized organized organ organ- atrocities and refuses to believe that mat any evidence worthy of at the name exists for such monstrous wicked wicked- ness He lie says of the th sinking of ot the Lust Lust- tania anla that it was a great blunder and andone andone andone one th that t he will never cease to regret but he ra says s 's England's policy of ot attempting attempting attempting at at- tempting to starve the women and children of Germany Germa had driven his people out of all patience and quite them against England Of or the shooting of Miss Cavell he declares that the order was given by bya a general who was the worse for drink and that directly he lie heard of the he execution the sent sont orders to headquarters that henceforth no woman woman was to be shot without his own personal sanction He deplores that execution He says the German German German Ger Ger- man armies fought with Incredible coura courage e and absolute devotion to duty and he fires up and becomes furious furious furious fu fu- fu- fu rious with Indignation when they are pictured pictured- as brutal huns buns Sees No Xo Iniquity In Belgian lan slon Invasion The question of Belgium Is so 80 clear clea in his liis eyes that he cannot understand understand understand under under- stand how honest men can doubt th the right of Germany to go through that tha neutral territory He Ho says sas that under under un un- un- un der del Lord Haldane's administration o othe of the British war val office once regarded Lord Lori as ns England's cleverest spy Plans were laid with consent of Kin King Alberts Albert's government for tor attacking Germany through Belgium The violence of ot German methods 1 In Belgium he defends on the score that tha Belgian franc were attempting to o unnerve the German armies and break their discipline He declares that hat no harm would have befallen a n city or a village of Belgium if tr the tho Germans had hud not been subject on nil all sides Ides to secret attacks s of Belgian cit cit- zens Ills full blame for the catastrophe of f war Is laid on Russia Ills attl- attl udo tudo toward England is curiously sympathetic Ho does docs not now think as he was once minded to do do that hat England's statesmen deliberately deliberate deliberate- ly y brought about the war Says SUS J England Deceived I C by Russia He lie now says Rays England was deceived ed d by Russia and that she had noth- noth nothIng nothing Ing ig to do when the the- war came but to keep faith with her allies As for Germany he Is convinced that she will rise in righteousness and nd power from the ashes of defeats incurred In defending her freedom from rom a a. a world a-world In arms He lie feels that England has never realized the ju justice tico of of Germanys Germany's dread read of Russia England at one onetime onetime time ime feared Russia at another time vilified and scorned her and at another another anther an an- other ther time time fell foil upon her neck and I kissed her but for Germany Russia I Ihas has as always been a world menace menaco inscrutable In- In and anti treacherous a mass macs of ot black lack ignorance savage ferocity and almost soulless animalism which moving westward would one day flood the tho world with anarchy and death Always for tor Germany Russia has been Bolshevist I As to the future of the world the thel l kaiser alser entertains the tiro conviction that overy everything thing precious In human life Is Isnow Isnow isnow now menaced with destruction by the tho organized forces of at evil lIe He has found a new peril Bolshevism Bolshevism Bolshevism Bol Bol- for tor him is only a criminal alias for free freo Sees Death neath Peril In Red Freemasonry He lie Is convinced that socialistic free tree freemasonry freemasonry masonry as it exists on n the continent Is a power comparable In Its organization organization organization and its I s international ramifications ramifications ramifications with the Latin church He sees in the tiro destruction of at German unity and German discipline not so much the tho physical victory of ot the entente as the spiritual victory of ot this secret society Ho IIo reads a number of ot books bookson on the subject and his eloquence about freemasonry Is as earnest as ash h Jon former days was his denunciation of or the yellow peril socialism and lie He sees In front of ot humanity a abyss of agony and ruin toward toward toward to to- ward which the hidden hand of ot freemasonry freemasonry free free- masonry Is ast driving the unconscious unconscious unconscious masses of or the tho world He says Bays that two great grent powers still stand In Inthe Inthe Inthe the midst of ot the world ruin the Church of Rome and the Freemasons |
