THE KAISER AT 4 A.M.

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 222, 7 June 1918, Page 7

THE KAISER AT 4 A.M.

A SPY'S VISIT TO THE WAR LORD,

"My adventures as a German Secret Agent, by Captain Horst von der Goltz," is the title of a book just published. Von der Goltz is tho Kaiser's spy who was arrested with a false American passport in the name of Bridgoman H. Taylor. Ho was one of tho results of the Von Papon revelations, the disclosures of plots to blow up works in U.S.A. and Canada, lo invade tho Dominion, and to place infernal machines on board ships. One of his stories is of how early in the wav he hud gone to Berlin, where his spy stories were considered ho important that ho must see tho K.iisor—then at Coblcnz, on tha Rhine—immediately. Ho was actually sent by special Zeppelin. He describes his interview with the Kaiser at 1 in tho morning. "At half-pact 3 I was awakened by a knock at the door. 'Please du'ss,' said a voice. 'His Majesty wishes U> seo you at 4 o'clock.'

"It was still dark when -nt t o'clock I entered that room on the ;.;:Miind floor of tho castle where the Eiup:;i _• of Emperors worked and ate and di'pt. In the dim light I saw him, bent over a tableon which was piled correspondence of all kinds.

"Hβ did not seem to have heard me enter tho room, and as he continued to work, signing paper after paper with great rapidity, I looked down and noticed that, in my hasto to appear before him on time, I had dressed completely save for one, thing — l was in my etockin.ed feet.

"I coughed to announce nvv presence. He looked up then, and I sr.v that he woro that undress military j.xket which is used by soldiers for stable duty, and which German officers wear sometimes in their homes. Tho faco thai met mine startled ma almost out of my composure, for it was more like the countenance ot Pancho Villa than that of Wilhelm Hohenzollern. That face, ag a rulo so majestic in its expression, was drawn and lined; his hair was disarranged, and showed numerous bald patches which it ordinarily covered. And his moustache— for so many years the target of friend and foe-whic'h was always pointed ?o arrogantly upwards, drooped down iniQ gavo him" a dispirited look which I had never seen him wear before."