Show fhe HE KASSER KAISER rr PLOTS L 0 T S SN IN HOLLAND if INT no 0 3 by dr franz at t 4 that afternoon ills his ma sty ay iy accompanied by ills crony von falkenhayn alken hayn and wearing undress litora without any jec decorations orations rove ve out in his big grey open car hile bile 1 I with captain va von n Ilsen iann attendance drove in one ot of count Q cars which followed ti atly to in the track ot of the one before 5 awe N Y e had traveled for about half an etc tr our through the village ot of barne t jid eld in ill t the he direction of t the lie zuyder ee ee when just as we had got be ond the little town of 0 nijkerk niekerk a at run of william s at a point here the car had slowed down to ake ke a corner a man in it german geld field rey y an Lilter interned fied prisoner lie he alter after ards proved to be darted out from I 1 ib ind a wall and fired three shots ro rom in a heavy service revolver point ii lank at the emperor in return von falkenhayn Falker Falke hayn rhay drew a weapon instantly and shot the man ead I 1 both cars cara pulled up and rushing orward I 1 lound found his majesty lying nert in a corner ot of the car with lood running from his left shoulder 1 I 1 im all right quite all right L thank heaven he managed to say bulling lulling himself together with an efa ort then noticing me he added Ml see that nobody knows of this his affair let us return at once you y on must call von fliesser Ji esser to see E ine e the man mail who had attempted to assassinate sas as the kaiser was identified on n that same evening as kurt manns field eld a private in the west kallail regiment who had escaped t to 0 holland after the siege of antwerp by the british an anarchist who had long premeditated an all attack atack upon the emperor Manns mannifield field being interned in holland and allow id cd on parole had learned of wilhelms habit of motoring to the zuyder zee and had determined to put ut his comrades resolve into alce V A ile he had indeed very nearly succeeded tor for though the anarchist lay jdean in the cottage of an old dutch i woman close by the spot where he iliad h ad fired the shot his majesty had had a very narrow escape and was breting from a painful wound in she ie shoulder 6 count was greatly per tur lied when we brought the emperor back to the castle the local doctor a young dutchman named van was called tor for old von neisen happened to be out and before long he succeeded in fit extracting the bullet the emperor calling me to ills his toom oom as soon as the operation was over said I 1 rely upon you to take measures to prevent any word ot of this affair from leaking out the world must never know that one ot of our awn own germans has attempted my illy life 1 I must le be indisposed I 1 leave it to you to concoct some plausible story halt half an hour later I 1 held consultation with von plessen and several others of the entourage As a result agthe the london 1011 don newspapers on oil decem j ber 18 isis 1918 published an agency telegram which on reference to the wes files will bo be found dated from Arne as follows the ex kalser kaiser lias has not lipen been well lince last sunday and is obliged to I 1 keep to his bed probably be caught a chill when out shooting with his hia host count Bent bentinck irick orf on saturday afternoon lie he has a slight affection I 1 ot of the ear I 1 s it is 14 true that the file kaiser suffered from ear trouble hut but it was deafness caused used by the explosion of a bomb I 1 dro dropped plied from a british aeroplane aero plano outside deual three months before I 1 and ire from which lie he very narrowly i escaped being destroyed together s with his staff the shock had caus calls 1 ed him partial deafness and indeed lie was treated for or this by another dutch doctor a man named van hoe beul veu who camo came from leyden y the desperate des deai erata lerate attempt or the sol dier AI ansfield caused the kaiser ria the hie alost most serious fears p the next morning I 1 reported to VS him what I 1 hall had been told over the U telephone houe from the juliel aust rasse fi nai namely nely that the an anarchist grotis group iri in berlin a dl desperate gang head by the notorious anarchist hermann watz vatz laff who was released from prison on oil the same day as lieb knee h t had already hy some mysterious means gained knowledge of 0 act aud and were ere in high glee over it then the truth has actually leaked out in fit berlin Derli nl 1 explained wilhelm Wilh eloi in fit great annoyance lying in with its his shoulder bandaged apparently so your majesty I 1 1 was my illy reply I 1 went below into the little room in which the secret telephone to berlin berhn had been installed the direct wire vire passed first to utrecht and then across the frontier for a distance ot of ten miles to an obscure german village where there had been established a little exchange under direct military control so that from amerongen Ame ye ive could be switched on direct with the schloss in berlin the palais at potsdam and also to the file head exchange of oc the telephone service ot of the tha capital I 1 asked for the latter and it was not long before I 1 found myself speaking to ellert ehert himself next morning I 1 read in the 10 lo kalan that the ebert government had arrested hermann watzloff the anarchist together with five of ills his associates including the notorious adoli adek St and karl herbst II erbst this had led to a serious riot biot den linden the ringleader being that firebrand rosa luxemburg the woman who had so often defied the emperor and his advisers large numbers number of shop windows had been smashed and nearly forty people had been shot down when I 1 informed his majesty of it he laughed saying ebert is playing the game very well very well indeed ile he has at least suppressed alt and his gang then after a pause his majesty turned uneasily in his bed aad tap ping a copy ot of a london paper lie he had been reading said 1 I am rather perturbed according to this paper the british do not believe in our revolution this paper points out that revolutions are spontaneous explosion from below and says that it is ail apparent parent that the trouble is a carefully planned rear re ar ran gement from above I 1 much tear fear therefore that at last the scales are falling from the eyes of the dear british for they are awake to the fact that there is not a assign sign to indicate that the revolution sprang from any passionate nate revulsion of popular feeling next day the emperor was able to dress and go to his study tor for a few hours there a cori conference ference was held to which came hindenburg front from berlin berin and Luden ladendorff dorff from its his retreat at in sweden while generals von falkenhayn Faken hayn von alintoff Lin toft von and von plessen were present together with byseit in my oui cai capacity in the course of the discussion hindenburg revealed an all interesting secret 1 I 1 have according to your bajes tys y I 1 s instructions approached the chancellor libert ebert and he has accepted therefore I 1 am forming in strict secrecy a new national army to lie called the peoples guard a stronger army than before in readiness tor for my return eh i laughed the emperor your majesty will return ere long the square faced held field marshal assured him ill all tho the officers of the new army have received instructions and all will welcome your majesty to potsdam the cry of the enemy is ill eliat at your majesty should lie he handed over to them remarked d general von falkenhayn ken Iren hayn bayn with a grin 1 I know the fools laughed the emperor they would like to see roe me tried by a jury well let them iry try it they will iffa that german money is as poi poverty erful in bi holland as ae alse elsewhere where ithe the limperos limp eror still believed himself the roost most popular figure in fit Cerni germany any and his entourage encourage encouraged d ill aln in ill that bellef belief any new newspapers pape chich dared fin I 1 to lo criticize him were i ft f t tediously placed out ol of reach 1 w 1 4 1 I had rea taateo unpopular wai xvi 3 welhelm tha 1 1 v continued on page 8 |