STRONG-ROOM SECRETS.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 5 June 1920, Page 4

STRONG-ROOM SECRETS.

WHAT THE KAISEII WANTED. Lying in a strong room of a Londo : bank for safe deposit are seven larg steel bound boxes, which the ex-Kaiser would give a big sum of money tu pc- , ess. As is well known, the great banking ileuses of Loudon have in thepossession numerous deed-boxes cu - t;lining securities that have lain us claimed for years. In a great numbr of eases tin- depositor has died, leavii •; j no trace behind of the deed-boxes tins' i he hub carefully stoned away in he ■ banker's strong room; and without L , authority of the safe custody reeeip , (.metier nul.mdy is allowed to interl'ei oit h the deposits tlm! Jay in the bank' • 111 11 —. Theso seven ileed boxes tin- . :,,,i 1,1 i >,;■ lain the manuscripts of the i lord -ami most important volume of ii jo- autoldogrupitiea 1 memoirs of i’rine.e ;. Ilismui'ei.. logoi her witli a valuab.b >< eolieetii.ii of eonlideatial papers aml j i orrospomloiiee. They also runtaiuj era I hundred letters written by the t e.\ Kaiser to the Iron Chancellor, and jj lepoil - ol eariotta plots and intrigue-p at Vienna in "Inch the Kaiser "s ‘j mixed up. llmmnick intended to pu' l I I, |, | tic third volume ol' ids memo'' i during liis lifetime, but the Kaiser greatly alurnod by the tone of h' hr t two volume. , threatened him rviO dite penalties. Ib.-marok managed | therefore, to smuggle' Ihe lira nuserip l : of the third volume and liis most pro eious papers out of the count r.v oxer !■ England in order to n\i himsell iro>< the Kaiser’s wrath. Lot it is ven evident that the Kaiser knew of wlmi had happened to the documents, (oi frequently during his reign he made ..pforis to recover them. It is knows 1t, :,1 during tile war he oilVred a big re ward to the airman who succeeded ii dropping a bomb on the bunk when they were deposited.