HOW THE KAISER WILL ESCAPE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 219, 20 October 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

HOW THE KAISER WILL ESCAPE.

Tho lionour —if such it be— of having invented tho submarine lias, in turns, boon claimed by America and France, says tlio Pairs correspondent of "The Sunday Ti_?s." Now comes a startling story to tlie effect that Napoleon Bonapiirte was to make his escape from S f . Helena on board a submersible cratt, invented and construeU'd by an Englisa smuggler named Johnstone. If tne plot failed it was due to the fact that tlio extraordinary shape of the boat (l>em« constructed on tho Thames) drew tlio curious attention of the - uthorities. It was seized and destroyed t»y order, and there and tl en disappeared the real ancestor (it the land'l bis story is supported by Sir Walter Scott in Ins " Lile of Xapoleoiv' but, like most of that particular history. must be taken cum grano salis.

Xeverthele-.s, the idea is not lost sight of in France, if only in view of the possibiidy of a III:.' attempt when William If. of Germany shall he languishing on the same historic island. It, i, already said that a German suomarine, containing all tho Kaiser s wealth and other necessaries of a Heoi riLC ICmporor's future Itie, av. aits that monarch's royal orders to carry him and his family to exiled safety when the psychological moment arrives.