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(KTOIIKI. 10, 10IS CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL 0XXXXXXO The Kaiser as I Knew Him for Fourteen Years By ARTHUR N. DAVIS. D. D. S. Are You in the Market for a P' CEO Open for Business. Baled Hay and Grain for Sale WOOD A SPECIALTY Tin Wfc are due to re ceive two new six's within a week. Place your order at once. Inland Auto Co. Be sure and attend the Inter-State Fair Oct. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. SHIPP & PERRY DEALERS IN Lumber, Moulding, Shingles Doors, Windows, Paints Oils, Glass, Lime and Cement PRINEVILLE, OREGON New Fall Hats We haT. la stock th v of the SMMon. Trim t freight and Irregular rolled h; 1m nation, sm good itylea, broad hrl taupe, purple, aand, colore, and the popular hats. err martest new hata allored vtylea with the brlmi, atralght and all hata In a variety of m velvet hata In black, apphlre, and mixed kiltie capi and Kroncb. Mrs. R. M. Lafler City Transfer & Express Jap Ireland, Prop. 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D .atW, wnie iirgiMirAr, iiagrne wiiii.t lor iiiuBiriiiru vunii-i JVV 1 waa bevef meullom-d and It wan not until iicvernl month later when the ubmarlne warfare wa tarted again on a greater emle than ever that I realized that the whole purpoae of tlila Interview waa to (certain If they could, without telling me their Inten tion, who was the candidate, Hughes er Wllnon, who would he leant dan gcfoun to them If more American ves sels were sunk In the ruthless sub marine campaign they were then con templating. The election wa drawing close; It was necessary to notify Von Herns torn of I'otsdam's preference; the kai ser believed that perhaps he held the deciding ballot in his hand In the shape of the German-American vote and be didn't know bow to cast It Hence the eagerness with which they Interrogated me upon my return from the "front" The Interview with the retchskanzler and the fact that It was Instigated by the knlser Indicated to me that Amer ica occupied a moMt Important place In the kulser plans. When, a few months later, we declared war against Germany, however, all the kaiser's planning and plotting of years col lapsed. The edifice he had been so confidently erecting came crashing to the ground because It was built upon a false ronnuntlon. now elementary waa his expectation that his efforts to win the friendship of the United States In time of peace could avail blm anything In the face of his bar baric methods of making war I CHAPTER V. War The Kaiser Defends German Method. The kaiser waa always very careful about everything which might affect his health, and even after the war started, when his attention was natu rally occupied by many pressing prob lems, he did not neglect his teeth, but came to me as regularly as he had al ways done. Of this I was very glad, because It gave me an opportunity to draw the kaiser out on many of the interesting questions which the war suggested and which I found him always ready to discuss. Perhaps the fact that I was an American led the kaiser to greater lengths in his Justification of German war methods and measures than be might otherwise have thought necessary. The first time I saw the kaiser after the war started was about August 10, 1914. Between eleven and twelve o'clock the night before, I had been notified by telephone that the kaiser about the same day Dint President Polnrare forwarded a similar protest based upon the use of dumdum bullets by the German. Regarding the violation of Belgium'! neutrality, the kaiser wa able to of fer no reasonable argument The fact that he was willing to pay Belgium for permission to allow his armies to go through that country was apparently sufficient justification in hi eyes for taking by force what Belgium refused to sell. "How foolish of Belgium to have re sisted nst" he declared, In this con nection. "Had they consented to let us walk through we would have paid for everything everything I Not a balr of their heads would have been touched and Belgium today would be In the same happy financial condition that Luxembourg Is." At a subsequent Interview we re ferred to Belgium again, and the kai ser alleged that Japan had violated the neutrality of China when ahe sent troops through Chinese territory to seize Klao-Chan. "It Is all right for the allies to do these things," be commented sarcas tically, "but when Germany does them England rises up In righteous Indig nation. The hypocrites I Why, we found paper In Brussels which showed conclusively that England and Belgium had a secret agreement by which In the event of war with Ger- many England was to be permitted to occupy Belgium ! We've got those pa pers In Berlin. We could have no more positive proof against them. The Belgians were simply England's tool 1' Some of the arguments the kaiser raised In his discussions with me re garding the war were so weak and untenuhle that one might well doubt his sincerity in urging them, but I shall give them for what they are worth, "They refer to us a the Huns !" the kaiser observed bitterly. "If your people could see what the Russians -have done In the Bukowlna and east ern Prussia they would know then who are the real Huns I They de stroyed everything they could lay their bands on. In one of my shoot ing lodges which the Cossacks entered they even knocked out the teeth of the boars' heads which hung on the walls 1 With knives they cut out the covers of my chairs. They bad special fire bombs which they threw on peaceful villages. These bombs had been con structed in peace times and were de signed solely .for pillage and destruc tion. "Instead of treating their soldiers as prisoners of war we should have would like me to attend him at the i strung them up by the neck every Berlin pnliice the following morning ! one of them !" Several prominent Poles, who were at nine o'clock. He was about to make his first visit to the front and wanted his teeth examined before he went j The work I had to do for him was nothing of a serious character and did not occupy more than twenty minutes. One of his valets stood by to give me any assistance I might need, but left the room when I was through. "Have you been reading in the pa pers, Davis," the kaiser asked when we were alone, "how our soldiers have been treated by the Belgians?" I said I had not bad a chance to read the papers that morning." "Well, you must certainly read them. They've been gouging out the eyes of our wounded and mutilating my men horribly) They call It modern, civi lized warfare. That's savagery I I hope your president la taking notice of these atrocities." Of course I was In no position to contradict the kaiser's assertions, as I was not in possession of any of the facts, but I learned afterward that four American newspaper correspond ents had scoured Germany from one end of the country to the other In an effort to run down these reports. They left no rumor uninvestigated, no "mat ter how far tfiey had to travel to ver ify it When they had finally exhaust ed every clue and followed every lead they had not found a single case to Justify the charge the kaiser had made against the Belgians and which, of course, the inspired German press con tinued to report from day to day. The object of these lies was to jus tify the outrages which the Germans were committing In their plan to ter rorize the inhabitants of the countries they were overrunning. According to reports the activities of franc-tlreurs in the occupied territories were met by the Germans with the most bar baric punishments, crucifixion and similar atrocities being very common. Undoubtedly the kaiser was aware of what bis soldiers were doing, and to defend their conduct he lent a ready ear to the unfounded charges made against the Belgians. "I have already framed a message which I Intend sending to your presi dent regarding the use of dumdum bullets by the Belgians and French," the kaiser went on. "We have ample proof to establish this charge not only in the chnracter of the wounds suffered by my soldiers but In the shape of un used cartridges which we found in the captured forts." Strangely enough, the kaiser sent off, his protest to Fresident Wilson patients of mine and whose fine es tates In Poland were looted and de molished, told me positively that the destruction and depredations were committed entirely by German troops. The Russians had occupied the houses when they were In possession of that section of the country, but It was not until they were driven out by the Geo mans that the acts of vandalism were committed and they had convincing evidence that in every case the Ger man soldiers and not the Russians were responsible. The outrages committed by the Ger mans in their treatment of prisoners of war will probably never be known In their entirety. We do know that they executed Captain Fryatt, the commander of a British merchnnt ves sel, who was captured after he had rammed a German U-boat I don't know to what extent the kaiser was directly responsible for that dastardly crime, but from what he said regard- Ing the capture of another British cap tain, the commander of the Buralong, it was quite evident that he was in entire sympathy with acts of that character. A German U-boat had sunk a Brit ish vessel upon which were some of the relatives of the crew of the Bara long. The crew of this U-boat was subsequently captured by the Bara long, and according to reports In Ger many they were harshly treated. Then it was reported that the. Baralong had been captured and . that her captain and the crew would be summarily dealt with. "I hear we have captured the cap tain of the Baralong," the kaiser de clared to me at that time.- "If we can prove that he's the man we'll fix htm I" The manner In which the kaiser spoke left no doubt In my mind that the direst punishment would be meted out to the unfortunate British captain. Booty is undoubtedly a- legitimate Incident of war, but it "is legitimate only as an Incident. Otherwise booty becomes loot. In any event, when In vading troops seize private property It is customary to pay for it That the Germans were good takers but poor payers Is revealed by two incidents which the kaiser narrated to me, and the keen enjoyment he derived from them can be fully understood only by those who know how much the kaiser appreciates getting something for nothing. "Roumanla wanted our gold-for food . products." lie tnld me. "Thev doinaud (To be continued) Telephone Black 951 ROBERT BROWNING . PRINEVILLE, ....... OREGON AT H. DOBBIN, President HENRY L. CORBETT. Vlce-Pre. J. 0. 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