PARISIAN PROPHETESS FRIGHTENS THE KAISER.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 111, 20 May 1901, Page 1

PARISIAN PROPHETESS FRIGHTENS THE KAISER.

Paris, April 6. Mine, de Thebes, the famous old chiro

mancer who foretold Khartour’s fall, the Carnot assassination, Faure’s sudden death and Victoria’s demise, the latter to the exact hour, has just returned from Berlin. She claims she was summoned

there ten days ago by order of the. Kaiser, who, hearing of her fame, expressed a desire to consult her.

Mine, de Thebes says that when she reached Berlin the Kaiser postponed the seance from day to day, because, as he afterwards admitted to the chiromancer, he feared what the cards would reveal about his future.

At last he sent a carriage for Mine, do Thebes and received her in full uniform, standing with hands crossed upon his sabre the whole hour and a half the seance lasted.

The Kaiser, at the start, was impressed nervously with the secret facts the woman told about liis past. He listened to what she predicted of his future with intense pressing her eagerly with questions/' Mine, de Thebes attributes the violence of his receut Berlin speech to what she found in the cards. Part of this was a disruption of the German Empire precipitated by the discontent of the minor sovereigns against the preponderance of Prussia. Prussia itself, she told the Kaiser, will rise against Wilhelm, led by a Republican and a Socialist, on the first pretext.

All this coming turmoil, the death of the Austrian Emperor causing a separation of the Hungarian portion, and a general war over the allotment of the remaining provinces, were forecast. . Mine, de Thebes predicted that the Kaiser will die in England twenty-three years hence, exiled by his people. She refused to give further details of tlie interview beyond reporting the farewell words of the Emperor; “ Adieu, madamc; your predictions won’t sway me, but I shall be interested to see what part of them come true, Pray do not speak of the interview if, being a woman, you can be so discreet,”