KAISER BILL'S RED LIST.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 197, 4 August 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

KAISER BILL'S RED LIST.

XAIJES OF MEN* WITH A PHIC'K OX THEIR HEADS. Ono has often heard of people beiiij, on the Black List. It lias remained tor Prussian Headquarters to compile a Rod I/st of persons who, for one reason or another, are specially obnoxious to the crazy Kaiser or his satellites. This list would form interesting reading, could a complete copy be obtained As it is, we only know of a comparatively few individuals whose names are on it, but this we do know —that every one has a price 011 his head, and that some of the rewards offered are pretty large. That g ; fted Dutch cartoonist, Mr. Louis Raemaekers, is probably somewhere near th,e top. We are aware that no other living person has so deeply stirred the fury of Germany's ruler. There is. 110 doubt, a large fortune n store for any German who can do him to death.

MADE.THE KAISER FFRTOt S. There are many airmen on the list. For one, a captain in the French sen - ice, it is known that a sum of £1250 ; s offered. This captain has accompanied his own raid : ng planes on a score of different occasions, and armed with a mitrailleuse kept enemy aircraft at bay while the other French planes drop the bombs.

He a'ways waits to watch the effect of the bombs, and tlien follows his men home. On one occasion he had to fight three German planes, one after another. on his way home, and brought them all down. He is said to handle a quick-firer better than any other man in the air service. "What has so particularly infuriated the Kaiser against him is that lie has, on three separate occasions, bombed the powder works at R— - in Germany, and each time su> cessfuilv. A .lOFRXALIST WHO TOLD THE TRUTH. There mi;-t ne quite a number of journalists and Pre-s correspondents 011 the list. One in |a> titular, of British birth, who, posing as a neutral, went into Belgium no longer ago than last autumn, is a partVularly pet avers;on of the Huns. This gentleman brought back and published details of the way 111 wli ch the Belgians wer suffering under the Iron Heel, and bis n relations cabled to America did the Allies' cause much service ill the Fniti d States. The same correspondent also succeeded in bringing back w th him to London samples of the cotton substitute which the Germans are making trom wood pulp and cf their rubber substltut-. Other addit ens to the • Red List are at least two IJntish submarine commanders, one ot whom distinguished himself by sinking a largo German transport : n the Baltic, and so perhaps just turning t'e scale in the frantic attempt of the Huns to break through to Riga last autumn.