"REMOVING THE KAISER."

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1916, Page 4

"REMOVING THE KAISER."

ANZAC'S DARING SCHEME. The Ceylon Observer of May 12 printed the following: "Amongst the returning officers per transport , which arrived on Wednesday en route to Australia, is Captain F. Marks, D.5.0., who has just completed lengthy service at the front with the 7th Battalion. After the evacuation of Gallipoli this officer applied for three months to carry out a personally conceived plan for proceeding incognito to Germany and removing, in the interests of the war and humanity in general, no less a person than the German Kaiser. Though fraught with much difficulty and danger, this officer expresses himself as absolutely confident of the success of his intended mission, but would not say he expected to return safely. His request was duly laid before the War Office, who in turn refused to sanction the leave for that purpose. Captain Marks proposes spending a few weeks in Australia, awl then proceeding to England to rejoin his former regiment (Middlesex) for service in France. Questioned aj to his intentions regarding carrying out his scheme in the future, the officer declined to say anything beyond, "Time will tell." Captain Marks is an old campaigner, and he has th« honor of having won the D.S.O. in South Africa for having succeeded in erawlins through the enemy's lines lit night to search 1m help for his battalion, which was cut off and surrounded all I.indley. The whole battalion was decimated bafore he returned with Lord Methuen."