HOW THE KAISER WILL ESCAPE.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 218, 20 October 1916, Page 6

HOW THE KAISER WILL ESCAPE.

The .honour —if such it be —of liav-

ing invented the submarine has, in turns, been claimed by America and France, says the Paris correspondent of “The Sunday Times.” Now comes a startling story to the effect that Napoleon Bonaparte was to make his escape from St. Helena on board a submersible craft, invented and constructed by an English smuggler named Johnstone. If the plot failed it was due to the fact that the extraordinary shape of the boat (being constructed on the Thames) drew the attention of the authorities. It was seized and destroyed by order, and there and then disappeared the real ancestor of the Deutschland. This story is supported by Sir Walter Scott in his “Life of Napoleon,” but, like most of that particular history must be taken cum grano salis. Nevertheless, the idea is ’not lost sight of in France, if only in view of the possibility of a like attempt when William 11. of Germany shall be languishing on the same historic island.

It is already said that a German submarine, containing all the Kaiser’s wealth and other necessaries of a fleeing Emperor’s future life, awaits that monarch’s royal orders to carry him and his family to exiled safety when the psychological moment arrives.