| Show r atel E kalu KAISER n F F PLOT lats U 10 1 L L A ND 0 no 5 by dr franz be e united states stales will never en foi r to confiscate your maje s said aid th elder or the pair of 0 eier ier because on oil the outbreak ra r I 1 at 0 once lice took steps to realize w atole and re reinvest it in various specter pecked names good american a he laughed nd d in england wilhelm ask Q the mau man who u riling to younger it however about 50 and some g ot of a dandy he british are still quite ansu us he assured the kaiser ur maje funds are suite safe m W n i you sent me secret word in 2 that war had been decided I 1 nce e took precaution to destroy a bier r of 0 documents and to reini ahe he money through secret chanty X I 1 esi suppose the british would ilage j eto to find legal difficulties in the fb of bf confiscating my property just ney ey did when it was proposed to e our german derman banks in it london hed ed the emperor sarcastically ionian man marks judiciously expend n london lo have just the same re there here as in constantinople or dhere it if the british had learn h the e power ot of gold they need never A i e suffered the huge losses we e inflicted upon them but bul liah hall y are after all a mock honest bonest e I 1 the ba emperor appeared much agrati iby by the assurances given him ordered bordered roe me to write down one or I 1 i memoranda of replies to ques is lie he put to them he conversation then turned upon general outlook in england and election and I 1 learned to my sur se e what large sums germany had leaded ended in secret in order to influx e the latter ave e must ireland j majesty deti declared lared emphatically I 1 ase I 1 e irish are now ripe for it the I 1 tish are still dozing even though ey have given us an armistice and I 1 I 1 by y fondly believe that germany the he erge up and dis disi i id ding my imperial house hone I 1 assure i i gentlemen that such is not the iano no gentlemen he added rest ared that the will jura rn to Pot potsdam saam and on oil that day aay services ot of you both will I 1 i raise bea triply m ply rewarded I 1 file e two men had returned thanks en n the kaiser put some ques as concerning certain well known aiple Is in the political lical world of 0 lon and ew york in which ho he seem ito 0 evince an ail undue interest and pro in I 1 afterwards learned had 1 ig g before the war been accepting pey from rom von dedels bribery reau eau th hift replies of our secret visitors j tily luly noted at hl his maje orders lies 1 aei which left no doubt in i my bd d that prominent persons sever I 1 lof of them women moving in the chest st circles in london and new rk irk I 1 were not only in ili germanys germanas Germ anys I 1 V but were viere held to their contract elaborate and 1 hiis us system of blackmail j that that secret conference with the vp 0 teutonic financiers both of hose signatures on checks were 1 tor for millions caused rad me to think beerly arlly truly the tentacles of the erman I 1 financial octopus had never i sen en lopped olt off as the british press ld id led british to suppose financial influence directed from alln was still actively at work nd id even then during the armistice I 1 j oth k the dresden bank and the I 1 leu deutsche eu balice though their offices ere re closed were still doing a great business in london though of ourse entirely in subterranean cannels han nels why because cause as his majesty Irn self had declared 1 to me the fath rland had bad very many mends friends in lon loni 1 i I 1 on hn labost of whom wore in the hilgh t places I I 1 and could riot not afford to fo ludarrel s on burway back to ron rom the hague it snowed heavily lie he roads being quickly covered b christmas was certainly a sorry borry time or tile the ex kalser lie he was was ill with arache and bad kept kepi to the large wing room on the first floor which 6 occupied with the jim impress press A meager aber christmas tree was waa set bet up there as is is the he german habit and once when my duties took too ii me to tle the room I 1 found him seated silently contemplating the emblem ol of goodwill and happiness ile he had with ills his OIVU hands cut down the little fir tree in the park of amerongen Ame and had helped to pring bring it in von lise ilsemann marin assisting him and cursing the while during christmas day the private telephone to berlin was coriO constantly autlY ringing and I 1 was ever in attendance what I 1 heard from the wilhelmi strasse was vas to say the least highly sensational r liebknecht with his gang had occupied the royal palace the holy of holies and was actually sleeping in the bed of the all highest when I 1 told the kaiser lie he went white with fu fury ry have billave I 1 not told ebert all along that liebknecht I should be suppressed lie he shouted in shrill anger irow how long ions am I 1 to suffer stiffer this Is S ebert really loyal or is he felike like the others playing me ine false an hour later I 1 was vas again called to the telephone truly it was a memorable chris christmas eluas without alt hou t peace or good will the words I 1 then heard over the telephone from who was my trusted subordinate in charge of the wire at the other end were as follows yes dr ger yes sir I 1 have to report that brutus buhr one of the liebknecht leaders you know him lias has just been made military commandant of derlin berlin this means the complete victory as regards berlin of the spartacus group Schelde matin has led fled and the newspaper has been seized by the spartacus at this moment they are the palace the balcony you know it 11 over the garden from which ills his majesty made his war speech in 1914 no longer exists it is blown away an attempt has been made to oust the spartacus supporters from the palace alace but without avail over a hundred people have been kill killed d and six hundred wounded within tile the last hour where Js Is ebert I 1 inquired at once no doubt his maje majesty Z ty w will ill want to send him some orders the chancellor is still in berlin whatever orders ills his majesty gives I 1 will convoy convey came the repy crepy at present however ebert is 13 a Dri prisoner in ili the chancellors palace A large number of sailors from mel kiel have joined the spartacus and the insurgents sur gents are at tills this moment demanding a bolshevist government govern inept in place of 04 ebert and haase whatever instructions Instruct iona you give I 1 will convey to the chancellor as soon as ho he can settle the diep dispute ute this he will no dou doubt lit accomplish Is the situation really critical It lali I 1 queried most critical please impress impresa upon his majesty that lie he rioting today in unter den linden and also jn in the Wilhelm strasse and lustgarten is much more serious than before I 1 I 1 there are even demands that the british and french should intervene and take possession of the ca cahhal PI tal that would surely mean the end 11 well I 1 replied 1 I will see his majesty and ring up at 9 so ile e there eliere you seem to be in the very thick or of it all eh yes I 1 tell you herr doctor it Is is not over pleasant to be in berlin at this christmastide I 1 was caught in a riot early this morning a as s I 1 came to the office I 1 was nearly shot down well goodby good by till 9 he added there will be still morto borto to report then I 1 expect to be continued |
