STRONG ROOM SECRETS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1920, Page 10

STRONG ROOM SECRETS.

■ ■ ■ -- 1 WHAT THE KAISER WANTED. i i: 1; Lying in a strong room of a London * bank or safe deposit are seven large S steel-bound boxes, which the ex-Kaiser v would give a big sum of money to pos- ° sess. As is well known, the great T bankinff houses of London have in their ? possession numerous deed-boxes containing seenritie- that have lain unclaimed °, for years. In a great irumher of cases ° tho dewjsitor has died, leaving no trace ° behind of the deed-boxes that he had carefully stowed away in, his banker's strong room; and with out the authority ; of the safe custody receipt voucher nobody is allowed to interfere with the deposits that lay in the bank's vaults. These seven deed-boxes are said to contain the manuscripts of the third anc most important volume of the autobiographical memoirs of Prince Bismarck, 0 together with a valuable collection of J confidential papers and correspondence T: They also contain several hundred let- tl ters' written by the ex-Kaiser to the \,- Tron Chancellor, and Teports of various } T plots and infcigues at Vienna in which, o the Kaiser was mixed up. Bismarch in- {, tended to publish the third volume or his memoirs during his lifetime, but ] c the Kaiser, greatly alarmed by the tone fl . of his first two volumes, threatened bim f] with dire penalties. Bismarck manas- ti ed. therefore, to smuggle the manu- vv scripts of the third volume and his most .];, precious papers out of the country over ]„ to England in order to save himself a l from the Kaiser's wrath. But it is very Vl evident that the Kaiser knew of what "j had happened to the documents, for fre- tc quently during his reign he made efforts n to recover them. It is known that dur- s j ing the war he offered a big reward to (, the airman who succeeded in dropping n a bomb on tho bank where they were «j deposits? * $,