OCR Text |
Show HUNS SHELL AN 0L0 MONASTERY Kaiser Writes to German Commander to Spare Famous Fa-mous Place Request J Is Unheeded. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, Juno 30. There is an interesting inter-esting development in connection with the hostile shelling of the territory around Mont des Cats whero the famous fa-mous Trappist monastery is located. For weeks the Germans havo been bombarding this Flemish elevation heavily. Recently the German emperor wroto a letter to the German commander asking that Mont des Cats bo spared because the aged prior to the monastery monas-tery was the only living person who knew where the emperor's relative, Prince Max of Hesse, had been burled after his death in tho monastery in October, 1914. The prince was attached at-tached to the cavalry which occupied Mont des Cats in October after the outbreak out-break of the -war During an engagement with British cavalry Prince Max was mortally wounded and taken to the monastery. Whilo he was being nursed by the monks, his comrades were driven from the hill and tho British occupied it. Tho' prince died and was buried in a certain place, the location of which was not disclosed to the world. The German emperor wrote-a letter to tho pope In "which ho asked for information in-formation as to where tho prince" wan buried and requested the return of the body. The pontiff forwarded the letter let-ter to tho monastery and it was then that the emperor received the famous reply not until he had evacuated Belgium Bel-gium and made just restitution would he learn the whereabouts of the prince's grave. Tho emperor now appears to be worried wor-ried that his guns may kill the only man able to give him the desired information in-formation but his request to spare the place, if he made such a request, seems to have met wtlh small response thus far, for big shells continue to break on the monastery. oo |