CATCHING THE KAISER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 259, 12 April 1915, Page 5

CATCHING THE KAISER.

HUSSARS ALMOST SUCCEED. CROWN PRINCE DENOUNCES VON TIRPITZ. ~T ll£ stol T of the narrow escape of the Kaiser from capture bv the 10th Hussars comes from an American source. It was first published as a message from its special correspondent by the Pittsburg Despatch, and was considered of sufficient worth to be cabled to the London Express by its New York correspondent. Here it is for what it is worth—and the original correspondent says his information was on the authority of an officer of the 10th Hussars* who states that after the British troop* occupied Boiselle on Christmas Eve the Germans fell back to Bertincourt where tho Kaiser arrived the same evening. At 10 o'clock that night, says the offi" cor, wo learned 'that the Kaiser and his stair intended to proceed at 7 o'clock next morning to the headquarters of General von Mauben, a few miles south' of Cambrai, and would take a road which would lead him to a point six miles cast of Boiselle. THE CHANCE OFFERED, At this point the road lay below a l»ng grass ridge. If we rode out and concealed ourselves behind the ridge there was, if our information was correct, a good chance of our being able, to' capture the Emperor. We determined to make the attempt. Major Blackwood two other officers and myself, with 500 men, left Boisello at 5 o'clock a.m., reached the ridge an hour later, and stationed three men to signal us the approach of the Kaiser. Hull' ;in hour itaer a troop of Uhlans came along the road, and then one of our men on the ridge saw signs being made from a cottage near the. occupied by a French peasant. We knew what that meant. Our presence behind the ridge had been communicated to the German cavalry, and our lookout on the ridge saw two of them gallop back, while the others went on. JUST TOO LATE. riuiL mi (ill | chance t'nt wo might eiptuu tli hi u at a po nt two miles further south, wiiere the road to ( lbi u ) a o I ill nisi We had onh n inn ill i \h i ti <mr the \ i n Iti ml up »omo wis vciy 10 11.1 l 1 lit \\ (l li Y\h n u v. \ (Inn lint 100 a mis ii ' 8 U \t \ n in'miin'ii" along 11 ( i i| f ii I i irt in J with our glasses we uuM n-ih Hio„ni c the Knsii mit willi t'n o'hci ifliuis 11, in i 1 ih ir th eastern i 1 ii i i n Iu t VI i mho just a i i 1 \\ i I i lo nit off the two ears follow n" (lie Knar's and male ) n f11 i if ml ( i « ivnrti prl,i , . ! "> if H w»l i I % i in i In'ile r-nmn H\ (ini tune tin < unm artillery i | M I ii I 'into under shell fire, when we lost two men.