AMBASSADOR'S STORIES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3465, 20 April 1920, Page 2

AMBASSADOR'S STORIES.

\\’().\l.~\.\l S.-\\"l'}.:s I\':‘..i°.EL"J.TTT l.l.l"l:2. Long ymnra 3:: xhc (‘.i;.rlolx:uti<: s«3r\'ic£‘ _g},¢,u§_‘, Bin,» 3, niztn in steel: of gum} stu:‘ic>: for tlw 11:13’ \\‘ll4§-I1 his lips inn)’ be unm-nlcdv, nml ‘ghu anonymous zlli'.ho.'.’ of “Tlie V':uiisllcu' l’oulps of YCstul‘dn_v: The l.>¢C'll'nl.£’.i.>‘l.‘t‘JlC(.‘;x‘ of :1 British l)*7.ploiwlzi!," is no oxen-ption to the rule (.~_t:lys the London Daily Cl11'011ic,lv). So good are his stories. that public curio..<ily will seek to penetruce his ul‘mliylliil_\,', and ask who this i'n.c_‘y' and ready ivriter in the Diplomatic Corps till! be. His publisllo:'.< vouch that he is “one wllos'c'birt.ll has nl-lulu him. free of the society .‘.‘"nich hu describes,” and he comes of “:1 family who lmlve. taken 11 p:l.l't ‘in tlio publ-i.r life of the British Isles for 500 ye:ll'.<." \V.ith that, and with the -.1utl101"s dedication of his book ‘to “.l‘.‘lllil_\," L{l(l_V Ainpthill, my fll'.\.'l ohe.t'cssC,"' the pub lic must puzzle out the mystery if tlu-_'v can. ' Wliilc 2ltl‘il(3l1C(l to the Briti.-:11 Enibasscy at Berlin. our ziuthor met. the ex-kaiser, “21 Sll:n,='l’_. tliin-sset young man of .19,” who pulled how in 21 light, '.l‘llalncs-built fouL'—o:ii- \\‘hi«_-h the Emb:ls.sy stall’ used on the Potsilztm lakes. ’l‘llel-e, in 1880. he had a. narrow escape. “He was \'c.i'_y anxious to set: if he coulrl learn to sciill, in spine of his 1.-l‘i_v._x:iC:xl (ls-feet (tlic vzitli-art-.(l _lll‘!ll), and IlSl\'(‘Ll the Ellllllii-‘3S.'l.(ll’(?S.\', L:l(l_\f Anl‘;»l‘hill, llcl‘.s'_ol‘.’ ml. expert SCLlll(.‘l', wlietlier she would coziuli him. Lmly Alllptlli.ll conscnterll, anrl mot Prince Wilhelm next day at the landing stage with 21 light skill’. She oxpliiinonl that he must ()XCl‘CiC\"»:‘ o.\:ltfe'nm cure. and in getting in inust. tl'ead. exactly in the centre of the boat. Wilhelm Hohenzollorn, who had never tnlien mlvicc f’|om anyone in his lift‘, I'<.=spolldCd by jiunping into the boat‘, (zapsizing it, and t-In-owing hiniself and llatly Amptr ‘rill into Mfr of water. “.Pri'nco Wilhelm, owing to his mul'r'm'mation. was unable to swim mic --:trol~:c; but. L:.ld_V Ampthill. :1. very -s.ti'olig si\'immcl', .luan2lge(l, in spite of tho weight: of her clotliing, to support him in tlio. water for five minutes until help came. I. will not siiy \\'l'lt-t.hel' she fogrots‘ her action on that occnsioii or not.” . J

There is a -glimpse ol"Waguer, which may or may not please his ad» mirers. He had been playing at the house of one of the Ministers at Ber--11n:-~

“His playing finished, a small, very t plainlyappointed supper table. was placed in the middle of the Fest Saal, T at which. Wagner seated liiniself alone in State. Then the ~long-wishecl-for moment began for his feminine adorers. The great ladies of "Berlin would allow no one to wait on the master but themselves, and'the hearers of the oldest; and proudest names in Prussia hustled about; with prodigious fussing, black puddings, aml herring salad, colliding with each other, hut, in spite of that, managing to lieap the supper table with more Teutonic delicacies than even Wagnefls very ample appetite could assimilate.” “An extremely attractive little countess, time, b(:a!"e,l' of a Great Ger}man name. would trip vaguely about. ‘zgilinouncing to the Wm'l<'l that ‘the !mast.el- thinks that he could eat two ;1110l'(:‘ black pucldings." Meanwhile, ltiroin another qu:u-tier one would hear [an eager ‘Dearest: Pl'ii:cess. could 3'01! inian-age to get some raw ham‘? The inztster tliinks he would likc-.sollle, or [else seine raw ‘Slllt_)l{(3Cl goose hl‘east‘.’~’.’ “The councillor of: the Austrian ‘Elnl)assjt-' in Eerlin in those (layg was I vm'_‘,.' deaf, and used to shout the most [confidential matters at: the top of his ‘voice. One day the inmates of the British l§lll‘b£lSSy_. seine little. distance. .°uv:i_v, heard him yelling, “H the pro-‘por-=a? ig DI‘BS‘SG(.I, Germany will resist it in the utmost. if necessary by force tot‘ nriiis. The Chancellor. in‘ giving -me» this information. ii?n.pi~esse(l upon gizzw how alisc-~lutel_v secret the mzitter tliiitst be l(epi'.” i “*'\.‘\‘."i::i_t is that '.lp}'aailing noise‘ in ‘t‘nr:~ A.U:itl'l2l‘ll tlliaticerk? I asked our WI:EH?--lgc’-:i<lé‘(l old ClltmCei.'jy' gen-'allt, “ ‘Tliat is Count4W~—— dictating a <L‘E~’:V:I&-1* ii-'*!='-gi'ani to ’V.r’imllla," answerext. ‘.}’=.:» oh‘: man.” '