Kaiser’s Dread of Airmen

Hokitika Guardian, 21 February 1917, Page 2

Kaiser’s Dread of Airmen

Help Wanted

Wellington, Feb 20

Paris, Feb 16

How the Kaiser looks at the present day is told by French residents who have "just been repatriated from the Charleville region, wbote the German headquarters are situated. “At first,” said one, “the Emperor was to be seen often driving in his limousine. Ha was generally smiling and he wore his cloak unbuttoned so as to show all the decorations on his breast and round his neck.

“Oae day, however, French aviators nearly succeeded in bombing the Imperial residence, and the Kaiser disappeared for a few days until the chateau of Bel-Air had beon armour-plated. I myaelf watched drays pass iaden with steel-plates, girders and sand bags going to the castle. “When the Emperor reappeared his auto was closed and his decorations no longer visible, though I saw him pass every day. He was always wearing a long mantle butioned up to the threat. At first he had a short moustache, tooth-brush style. At present his moustache is long, with upturned points, and so white that, for several days I thought William II had shaved. His hair is quite white and cropped close. “1 saw him bare-beaded one day when there was a ceremony at the church. That day the Emperor was wearing a white mantle, in which he appeared bowed and bent. His wrinklos extend from his cheeks to his eyes, and he has lost his eyebrows.

“He left Charleville a month ago, and the General Staff has been changed. Three officers who greatly resembled William II have also disappeared.

Russia’s Dream-

London, Feb 15

Sir George Buchanan, British Ambassador to Russia, presiding at the annual dinner of the English Club, said in pact, according to a Reuter despatch from Petrograd : “ Between us and Germany a gulf is fixed, red with blood of peaceful noncombatants. We cannot grasp her hand again until the armies of Germany have been defeated and the spirit of militarism permeating the whole nation is excised. “ The Biitish Government, when first approached on the subject of Constantinople and the Straits, early in the spring of 1915, immediately expressed its whole-hearted assent, We want to see Russia largely compensated for ail her services and sacrifices; we want to help her to the prize she has so long dreamed; we want to see her strong and prosperous aud we want to consolidate, for all time, the alliance which this war has cemented, for upon its maintenance depends the future peace of the world. This is the cornerstone of our policy.” Sir George said that Great Britain, during the war, has advanced more than £600,000,000 to her Allies for the purchase of war material, besides the materials she supplied direct. Conspiracy Charges. (Received Feb 21, at 8.40 a.m.) New York, Feb 20

Albert Sander and Charles Munncburg have been arrested on a charge of coospiracy to employ agents to obtain military information, maps and photographs of Great Britain and forward them to Berlin. It is alleged that letters and plans were sent to United States in invisible ink.

Secret service agents state that. 15 bogus newspaper men were sent to England and Ireland to act as spies. Accused state they merely conducted an exchange of films of war pictures.

(Received Feb 21, at 9,55 o.ra.) London, Feb 20

Hon John Hodge, in a speech at Nottingham, urged ell capable of helping tojoin the voluntary national service, especially in stsel works and shipyards. They must not make any benes about it. If voluntaryism failed the workers would be taken, willy nilly. The Blockade Paris, Feb 20 A total of 108 vessels daily entered French ports last week,’