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Show William Hohenzollern, the former emperor of Germany, who began the world war, and who abdicated when he was convinced that Germany must surrender to the victorious allies, has arrived in Holland, and is now at the town of Destieg, near Utretcb. where he hopes to escape further punishment punish-ment at the hands of the nations he has so grievously wronged. Desteeg is on the Guelders Yssel, an arm of the Rhine river, about forty miles east of Utrecht and twelve miles from the German border. The chateau Middachten, to which the former emperor em-peror is reported to be proceeding, belongs be-longs to Count William Frederick Charles Henry von Bentinck. He is a member of the Prussian guards, and before the war was attached to the German embassy in London and a member of the English Turf and Koyal Automobile clubs. He is 3S years old. He belongs to the famous Anglo-Dutch-German house of Henrinck, the continental con-tinental branch of the family of the Duke of Tortland. Middachten castle dates back to the year 1(107. The former German emperor's party, which is believed to include Field Marshal Mar-shal von Ilindenburg, arrived at Eys-den. Eys-den. on the Dutch frontier, at 7:30 o'clock Sunday morning, according to Daily Mail advices. Practically the whole German general gen-eral staff accompanied the former emperor em-peror ; and ten automobiles carried the party. The automobiles were bristling with rifles, and all the fugitives were armed. The ex-kaiser was in uniform. He alighted at the Eysden station and paced the platform, smoking a cigarette. cig-arette. Chatting with the members of the staff, the former emperor, the correspondent corre-spondent says, did not look in the least distressed. A few minutes later an imperial train, including restaurant restaur-ant and sleeping cars, ran into the station. Only servants were aboard. A Ixmdon dispatch announced that members of the battleship Kaiser, at Kiel, had mutinied and hoisted the red flag. Officers attempting to defend de-fend the German flag were overpowered overpow-ered and two of them, including the commander, were wounded, according to the Cologne Gazette. |