KAISER'S FORMER DENTIST.

Taihape Daily Times, 13 July 1918, Page 6

KAISER'S FORMER DENTIST.

STORY OF GERMAN BOASTS.

The Kaiser's American dentist, Dr. A. N .Davis, who remained in Germany nine months after the United States entered the war, delivered a speech which extracted £700,000 in new subscriptions to the Liberty Loan from a crowded horror-stricken audience at the Carnegie Hall, New York.

Before his release Dr. Davis went to the German headquarters to the Imperial teeth, and as the dentist was a privileged person he availed himself of the opportunity to say to the monarch: "You are under-esti-mating the power of the United States sire." The Kaiser curtly replied: "1 under-estimate nobody, sir." High officers at headquarters boast, ed to Dr. Davis that their chemists had discovered a new and terribly deadly gas with which they expected to kill a million people in the City of London. They said that this gas would be dropped in bombs carried by huge aeroplanes, each equipped wiTh six motors, and would penetrate into the deepest cellars and underground railways. Dr. Davis proceeded: "These same high officials boasted to me that the aeroplanes of which they spoke woulfl be capable of flying to New York and back. They bragged, too, of supersubmarines which could easily come here and attack us, and it was plain from the way they talked that they were trying to give me the impression that these air and underwater machines would menace the safety of New York,"

Dr. Davis drew a gratifying picture of the food and other hardships the Germans are suffering, and advised the United States Government to ship to Germany all the pro-Germans in that country. After three days in Germany, he said, they would be wanting to return, and become patriotic Americans. Since his return to the United States, Dr. Davis said, frequent inquiries had reached him with regard to the reason why he did not utilise his position as Imperial dentist to give the quietus to the universal assassin. He replied that the German people themselves, would, when the time came, attend to this.