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I The Kaiser as I Knew Him
for Fourteen Years
I By ARTHUR N. DAVIS. D. D.' S.
(Copyrtatat, 191. by th MrClure Nwiplr Syndicate)
Tills was my first Intimation that w entirely lo our discretion. It was not
ailgbt have difficulty In potting out of I command, only a request from his
Germany.
A day or two later the kaiser called
n m professionally and I told him o.
ur plight. Imping that he would Inter
ecde for ns. It whs the only favor of
l eraonal character I had ever asked of
aim.
"My child Is ailing, your majesty," I
aid, "and I feel that she needs a
change of climate. I applied to the
tommandnntur for leave for my wife
and child to go to Montreux,but I have
just heard that it has been refused I"
"Davis, I will see what I can do In
the matter," he replied reassuringly,
and as he was leaving my office he
tnrned to me and said in the presence
f his two adjutants : "Regarding that
natter you spoke of, leave It to me
and I will see what I can do I"
The kaiser's influence would readily
aolve our problem, I thought, and I
was very much relieved. Two days
later, however, I received a letter
from Count von Moltke, oneof the kai
ser's adjutants, stating that the kai
ser had spoken to him regarding the
Switzerland project, but, under the
Circumstances, It was out of the ques
tion. If, however, my child's condition
were such as to make a change of cli
mate really necessary, he added, the
kaiser sufsested that a trip to the
Austrian Tyrol might perhaps be ar
ranged, as the climate there was just
as good as that of Switzerland, but be
fore permission would be granted for
that trip It would be necessary to ob
tain a certificate frorn the district doc
tor stating "that U was necessary.
As the food situation In Austria was
Just as bad as It was In Germany, If
Sot worse, that Idea didnt appeal to
Be at all, and I went Immediately to
the kommaniantur and explained the
situation to them.
When they saw Count Ton Moltke's
letter the officer In charge threw up
Sis hands.
"That's final," he declared. "That
comes from a higher authority than
urs. It Is useless to pursue the mat
ter any further. We received a com
Biunlcatlon from his majesty regard
ing your case, but the matter was left
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majesty. A command, of course, would
have been different."
Then I applied ror a pass for my
wife, child and myself to go to Amer
ica. They pointed out at the kouuuan
dantur that as my wife's application
to leave Berlin preceded mine. It was
possible she would be allowed to leave
before me. I told the officer that that
would suit me admirably, as I wanted
the pass for Kirs. Pavls and the child
granted at the earliest possible mo
ment regardless of what action might
be taken on my own application.
Again there followed a long period
of auxlous waiting while the German
red tape slowly unwound, but eventu
ally, In September, we received word
that Mrs. Davis and the child might
leave Berlin for Copenhagen between
October 10 and 12. They left on the
tenth. '
A day or two later commenced the
German offensive against Kiga, on the
Baltic. Within three or four days the
Germans captured successively the
Oesel, Buno, Obro and Moon Islands
In the Gulf of Riga and then carried
their Invasion to the mainland. Their
apparent objective was l'etrograd and
on October 19 the Russians announced
that the seat of the government would
be removed from l'etrograd to Mos
cow. These successes on the Baltic failed
to overcome the depression In Germany
caused by the serious Internal situa
tion In Austria at this period. Muni
tion factories were being wrecked by
hunger-crared and war-weary strikers
and the opulace was being shot down
In great numbers In the food riots
which developed In various parts of
Austria. Not since the war began had
the outlook been so discouraging for
the Germans.
Then, on October 24, Just as things
were looking their blackest, the great
German-Austro offeusive against the
Italians was started. In three days the
Italians were swept out of Austria and
the Teutons pressed forward to the
passes west of the Isonxo river leading
to the Venetian plains. .By the end of
October the Italian armies were in full
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retreat. IVfore this offensive wai over
the Germans captured, they claimed,
no less than 800,000 prisoners and sev
eral thousand big guns, besldea vast
stores of munitions and supplies.
The exultation of the Germans over
the triumph of their armies In Italy
knew no bounds. While It was at lis
height I had an Interview with the kai
ser which will ever remain one of the
most vivid la my memory.
It was about three-thirty one Sunday
morning when I was aroused by a maid
who, In an awe-strleken tone of voice,
announced that the Neue Palais, the
kaiser's palace at Potsdam, was on the
phone, I went to the telephone and
was Ir. formed that the kaiser was suf-
ferlivg from a bad toothache and would
send his auto for mo within an hour or
so.
j I got up at once and packed my In-
strut::e: ts, and at six-thirty the cur, a
big gray Mercedes limousine, arrived,
j Besldv-s the chauffeur there was an
1 outrider carrying the bugle whose dls
1 ttncttv notes only the kaiser mny use.
While the Shell room and other slate
' rooms were accessible to visitors be
fore the war. no one was ever permit
i ted to visit the private apartments of
the kaiser upstairs.
; On this occasion, however, I was
j guided right through the Shell room,
through a door opening on the left and
' up a wide staircase to the kaiser's
garderotH or dressing room.
j There I found breakfnst ready for
me. It consisted of real coffee, real
. white bread, butter, marmalade, sugur,
' cream and cold meats It
food of the kind I had eaten In some
time and practically no one In tier
many outside the royal family and the
junkers was any better oft than I In
that respect.
While I was breakfasting, the kaiser
was dressing. Ills valet entered sev
eral times, I noticed, to take out arti
cles of clothing from the massive
wardrobes which lined the room. I hud
just completed my meal when I re
ceived word that my patient was ready
to receive me.
As I entered the kaiser's bedroom
he was standing In the center of the
room, fully attired In an army gmy
uniform, but without his sword. lie
looked more haggard than I had ever
seen him, except once In 11)13. Lack
of sleep and phystcul pain were two
things with which he hud had very
little experience, and they certainly
showed their effects very plainly.
He didn't seem to be In the best of
humor but greeted me cordially enough
and shook bands. ,
"In all my life, Pavls." he said, "I
have never suffered so much pain."
I expressed my sorrow and started
to improvise a dental chair out of an
upholstered armchair on which I
placed some pillows and, as the kalsrr
sat down, he laughingly remarked:
"Look here, Pavls, you've got to do
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whole world, you know, and have a
toothache I"
When I was through and his puln
was relieved, his spirits seemed to re
vive appreciably, and he explained why
It was he was so anxious to have his
tooth trouble removed as quickly as
possible.
"I must go down to Italy, Pavls,"
he suld, "to see what my noble troops
have accomplished. My gracious,
what we have done to them down
there) Our offensive at Itlga whs Just
a feint. We had advertised our In
tended offeusive In Italy so thoroughly
that the Italians thought we couldn't
usslbly Intend to carry It through,
Kor three months It was common talk
In Germany, you remember, that the
great offensive would start In October,
and so the Italians believed It was all
a bluff and wheu we advanced on ltlga
they were sure of It They thought we
were so occupied there that we could
pay no attention to them, and so we
caught them napping I"
The kaiser's face fairly beamed as
be dwelt on the strategy of his gen
erals and the successful outcome of
their Italian campaign.
'Tor mouths Italy had been engaged
In planting her htt guns on the mountain-tops
and gathering mountains of
ammunition mid supplies and food and
hospital supplies In the valleys below,
In preparation for their twelfth Isonso
offensive.
"We let them go ahead and waited
patiently for the right moment. They
thought that their contemplated offen
sive must Inevitably bring our weaker
neighbor to her knees and force her to
make a separate peace 1" By "our
weaker neighbor" the kaiser, of course,
referred to Austria, and how accurate
was his Information regarding Italy's
expectations and how easily they
might have been realised were subse
quently revealed by the publication of
that famous letter from Kaiser Karl
to I'rtnce Sextus.
"And then," the kaiser went on,
"when their great offensive was within
a week of being launched we broke
through their lines on a slope 8,000
feet high, covered with snow, where
they couldn't bring up their reserves
or new guns, and we surrounded
them 1
"We took practically everything they
possessed food enough to feed our
entire anay without calling upon our
own supplies at all. Never before hud
our armies seen such an accumulation
of ammunition. I must certainly go
down to see It
"We cW off their northern retreat
and, as they swung their army to the
south, we captured 60,000 of them op
to their knees in the rice fields. One
of' the great mistakes they mado was
In carrying their civilian refugees with
them clogging their narrow roads and
Impeding the retreat of their soldiers.
We had taken possession of their most
productive regions, and their retreat
was through territory which yielded
them nothing. Just think of that re
treating army thrown upon the already
Impoverished Inhabitants of that sec
tion. Why, they'll sturve to death !
"Everywhere we went we found
their big guns abandoned. In one
small village we came upon a gun dec
orated with flowers and surmounted
with a portrait of Emperor Frans Jo
sef. It bad been put there by the Ital
ian Inhabitants of the village to show
Vietr happiness at being released at
last from the yoke of the Intolerable
Itn linn lawyer government! How ter
ribly the Itulluns must have treated
them! Italy will never get over this
defeat This was real help from God 1
Now, we've got the allies 1" and he
struck his left hand with bis right with
great force to emphasize his apparent
conviction thut the turning point In
the war had been reached with Italy's
collapse.
That the kaiser now regnrded him
self and his armies as Invincible I felt
and I feared that the success In Italy
would be followed at the first favora
ble opportunity by a gigantic offensive
on the western front
Indeed, on a subsequent occasion,
when he called at my office for further
treatment, and again referred to the
Italian triumph, he remarked : "If our
armies could capture 300,000 Itnlluns
and those 800,000 might just as well be
dead as far as Italy is concerned we
can do the same thing against our
enemies on the west!"
This was one of the Interviews I was
so anxious to report to the representa
tives of the American Intelligence de
partment at our legation In Copen
hagen and, Inter on, when I finally ar
rived In that city, i reintea it in great
detail to them. I remained In Copen
hagen eleven days and during the
greater part of that time I was being
Interviewed by one or another"? the
representatives of our Intelligence de
partment Exactly two months later,
on March 21, the western offensive
broke out as I had feared.
I called at Potsdam a day or two la
ter to attend the kaiser again, and
found htm still In the same triumphant
mood, and so anxious was he to get
down to Italy that he called at my of
fice three times that week to enable
me to complete my work on bis affect
ed tooth.
On November 26 the kaiser called at
my office for what proved to be bis
last sitting. I had received word on
the 20th thnt my pass for America had
been granted and that I could leave
on the 30th, and I accordingly told the
kaiser that it was my intention to leave
. for Copenhagen on that day.
I explained that I was completely
run down and I certainly looked It
and that It was necessary for me to
get to Copenhagen anyway, so that I
could get In touch with America re
garding a porcelain tooth patent which
had been granted to me In July, 1915,
but which a large dental company was
seeking to wrest from me. The patent
(To be continued)
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September 21. Please bring your
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Tho four minute men will address
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