Show HE KAISER r PLOTS 10 la 1 IN IN H HOLLAND 0 L L AND no 2 j by dr franz ger S the he kaiser within it v week of 0 his i i rival ival in had set up lip secret N malli cation with friends of at ger ny my in england by means of three dutch and and s briers one posing as 6 pretending to be danish wm coni hercial caal men heir real names were Roltz sch gel and Koppen fels and all aad add id office in the department of se it service in the rasse ese until their sudden appoint ant nt as imperial couriers al ill three of them knew england ell 1 and all three had been in lon DH several times during the war iauch much has been written in tile the brit haress press concerning cile the many secret fiends rids germany possesses in london jutten it has leen been denied but I 1 am 3 sa a position to know that afi the e alle 11 antons are not in fit the least ted jd german marks have been aured out by the million in england nd jd are still being poured out hence every walk ot of lite life in britain so fall ial political and professional the lun has his well paid friends ait lit Is from some of 0 these moving a lithe the highest quarters in london aa aliat liat i t the emperors messengers rought Y him a constant budget of inide information of what the allies ere je doing and their real intentions apart from those allowed to be de bribed albed in the newspapers ahe the kaisers keisers Kai sers hatred of england rew more intense and one day he ji is cussed with me a means by which a could gratify it though there is an armistice here acre can be no re reason ason why an over helming air raid should not be lade aide upon london he be said we i ave ve nothing to lose by it and to ike ake the english unawares would erve them right we ve have the roa ma I 1 laines hines ready and the pilots eagerton eager to i lan an them the british are not as aa ci et aware of the existence of halt half ur secret aerodromes I 1 ithe the next day he sent me to derlin berlin ith fill a letter to hindenburg fendenburg fin denburg on arrival I 1 telephoned to the field 1 I 1 hals house and finding that ia 10 i ad i d busl returned from kiel I 1 took a ali and delivered the imperial lis jis atch 11 1 batched his great square face is te e read it MP ic frowned and pursed his lips ut lit made no comment without a vord rord he struck a match and holding aie he letter over the stove lit it and etched ditched itched it consume thank you doctor he said at ast t there Is no reply 1 and that same night I 1 set out 1 1 port on my return journey to utrecht when I 1 told the emperor what nd enburg had said he twisted his nervously exclaiming 1 I suppose that because I 1 have pre led aided to abdicate I 1 am no longer in hi position to issue orders to td the he my ali ah I 1 had not thought of tat at 1 next morning soon after break st secret messenger vogel a tort ort gray haired man mail who spoke I 1 anglish perfectly arrived from lonan and seeking me asked for audice with his majesty how gerly the emperor awaited the arval arral ot of the trio who were traveling ackward caw ard and forcad to england I 1 ok him at once to the kaiser who as a seated in one of the smaller and ore cosy rooms which he used in LO 0 mornings when he read the geran coran newspapers generals von falkenhayn and von were there each glancing at apers ers vogel handed his imperial master smuggled letter having read it through the em e eror turned to me ate and exclaimed listen this Is really amusing 6 lic kland geddes is having the aua ana city to work up a campaign against ie e personally lie ile is making s urging that myself enver karl nd F ferdinand er dinand shall all be put on rial j just u t as though any tribunal lare are to sit bit in judgment upon me he follow fellow cannot be in his senses pardon your majesty said forel ogel but I 1 learned from a v very e ry retable source that the war cabinet Pc nc luding the colonial representatives met on the evening before left left london and decided unanimous ly to press holland for your Maje majesty jl I 1 extradition what screamed the kaiser shrilly under bunder what law pray sly my informant explained that the british attorney general had laid it down to the war cabinet that the right exists not only to press holland tor for extradition but to refuse to L include her in the league of nations it if sho she declines vogel ventured to A league of nations dosh bosh exclaimed the emperor angrily it Is a mere dream holland will not be frightened by the ugly grimaces pulled lit ill the horse collar ot of downing street happily nothing disturbs these slow paced dutch he added with a grin no I 1 have not left eft without well matured plans the th ege general opinion ot of your ma ala bestys friends in london is that if any real attempt is made to effect extradition your majesty Ala jesty should leave dutch soil instantly william bit his lip arid and frowned angrily that man mail smith sinith the british at torney general is a clever lawyer but he has myself to deal with arid and I 1 will show him who is the cleverer ile he has declared that I 1 instigated war when the world knows full well that it was forced upon me ine the threat to bring him before the bar ot of the nations troubled him sorely ile he had terror ill id his heart heart in those december days the london newspapers came to him and often lie would sit by the hour devouring them more and more did lie he keep himself apart from the kaiserian Kai Kal serin who had recently arrived moody and careless lie he felt less and less inclined to go out making the wet weather an ail excuse often lie he sat in its his room alone writing hour after hour what he wrote no one was allowed to know ile he kept many pages of writing lock ed in n a big steel dispatch box so carefully indeed that 1 I who had the run of the study at all times could not discover tho the purport of what he wrote couriers came and went to loridon london vienna berlin arid and constantinople to somo some of them he gave with ills his own hand letters he biad had written hence it was apparent that le he was still making some further secret but strenuous bid for fortune 1 I trust nobody he said to me one morning while dictating a I 1 letter to enver in constantinople 1 I trusted one or two but they have invariably turned out to be my e enemies n one has few friends in ones life he sighed very few alas one morning holding a london daily newspaper in ills his hand he pointed to a big headline which stated that the british army had occupied cologne and said ali ah ger the british are ad avancing van vaD cing eing just as I 1 intended lot them advance they will deeply regret it ere long but your majesty th there ere Is disquieting news over the telephone from berlin today what is ia that he snapped quickly last night during the fighting in the streets thirty nino people were killed hilled and seventy eight injured while a were gassed by the bombs used upon the civil population by tile the police I 1 replied this has baa inflamed the public and tile the capital Is in a state of nervousness the imperial palace Is occupied by revolutionists and the escutcheons torn lorn down the soldiers in the palace gafred Is that the truth yes and they are re removing moving only tho the most expensive furniture but also the secret stores ot of food tile latter are being distributed the poor I 1 I 1 hm that is indeed lileas news he growled does von plessen know of it yes your Maj majesty esly I 1 have informed him hill Is anything else reported is making inflammatory speeches machine guns 1 een placed at different points in ili capital and thousands ot of people crow crowding dlug the principal streets liebknecht mut must be sul and at once he cried cited angrily continued on page 8 |