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Northern Advance, 21 Nov 1918, p. 7

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IIIUAK uunnnu luau 161:1`. ..u. `.v.-.`.,. This treaty," the newspapers point- ed out. was made In the time of Fred- ?` stick the Great. It has never been repealed. Germany will respect it." As there were so many more Germans In America than there were American: in Ger-rr._:ay, this prompt announce- ment . `~f:ermuny's intentions regnrd- = .ing eaty was quite understand- able . t seemed most Improbable that Germany would adopt any harsh measures toward Americans and thereby invite reprlsnls. 1-1...: av... aunnolnn hcxxn u-nun:-and nf I \\'iU`.n'.'.1`. mo. Ag:-.1in the \\`c-:'n'y \\'('(`kS followed [ each ntller 'wltlmut the .~:li;:l1lost inti- mation 1'rr;m1 :m_\'m1e that I would ever he nl1o\vv(_l to l0:1\'r>. Imlecd, I had 1`11lly mzule up my mind that the au- . t`l1ori`Lic.\' lmd (lo:-i to lump me in lvrliu for run. hf tlwir own and that nnth'm;: I could do could mend the silmxtion, when. e-:xrl_v in .l:1nu:n'y, I re- ceived the joyous tidings that I could `leave .I:nm:u'y 21-25. I left on the V 220, and as far as I have stirxce been . ahlo to ascertain I was the last Amer- ican mule to leave Germzmy with the consent of the olcinls. country. On the 28th I received a letter from the court chamberlain stating that the president of police had made it known to the kaiser that I had applied for a pass to America and demanding an ex- planation as to why I had told the kai- ser that I hnd planned to go to Copen- ' hngen and had not mentioned Amer- icn. 1- -1. -..,... ....-1:.-.A H-me H- tvnu Innpd icn. I at once replied that it was indeed I my intention, as I had told the kaiser, to go to Copenhagen, but that I had applied for the pass to America be- cause I wanted to he in a position to go there if my patent af`:\irs demand- ed it and I expressed the hope that nothing would he done to interfere | with the pass \\'!1ir_-h had been prom- ised me for the 30111. -x~........n..u,..m ch.` "th n-wrnn nrnllnd 'u LUULH. On I\'o\'(>mbcr `:6 the 1 n_\' oice for what pm .`n+- nunnn Y hurl mu- ._........-._._.....__.._...-........-. WTNTER nmnwna PAYS" `A Few Very Simple Rules for Economical Feeding. A Protable and Eicient Ration for Work Horses When Fall Work Closes-How to Feed Roughago to Live Stock to Best Advantage. (Contributed by Ontario Department of Ag-rlcuiture. Toronto.) NE great lesson which is be- ing impressed on the people of Canada at the present time. and which cannot be emphasized too much is the need for thrift or economy. in this connection those In authority ought to set 3 worthy example to what Lincoln call- ed the Common People," of whom. he is reported to have said, The Lord must have loved them, because he made so many." A+---- I---~s "ant fnw fun" an Q D6 mane uu many. Farmers farm, "not for fun" as 1 man said to me one time. but to make money." This may not be II. high ideal for farmers or anyone else, but nevertheless it is a very necessary part in the lives of most farmers. The chief value of winter dairying from an economical viewpoint is. that prices for milk, butter and cheese are always greater in winter, than in summer, and it the producer or milk can keep winter production costs down to the level of summer costs, the gain in price for the milk, nv-nan` -ma hnHm' sold in winter. in Luuuua U1. ykuxcanluuul \':uu\.a. In this conclusion I was strengthened by the urgent solici- tation of the leaders of my pro- fession who were most emphatic in their contention that my ethical qualms were entirely un- warranted in view of all the cir- cumstzmccs. A1>rI`Y,`IYVT) \Y TiA1'YC` IN IN G 1 the gain in prlce Ior we mun. cream and butter sold winter, clear prot. Some claim that this cannot be done and that the extra cost of feed in winter, more than counter-balances the extra prices re ceived for winter dairy goods. mm: in: m-nhahlv true where the winter dairy goods. This is probably true cow-feeder is obliged to purchase all his concentrates in the form of high priced dairy feeds, such as oilcake, cottonseed and gluten meals, but where a. farmer is able to grow all his roughage, and at least onehalt the meal ration. on his own farm, there is probably not so much differ- ence between winter and summer milk costs, as some would suppose, especially on high~prlced land. Where cheap, rough land is available for. summer pasture, then summer milk can be produced comparatively cheap. Annther nhase or milk production ~ produced comparauveiy cueapt Another phase milk production in winter worth considering is the labor problem. In winter there is more time to attend to the cows thnn. in summer during the rush of work. Having the cows in 9. comtortahle stable makes pleasant winter work looking after them. It at least half the herd be fresh during November. and December, these cows will be so- ing dry at harvest time the following summer, and thus labor is more even- ly and more economically distributed throughout the year. Winter dairying may be warmly commended to the people of the -Province of Ontario who keep cows for pi-otit.-Pro1. H. H. Dean, Ontario Ag1'icultura.1 College, Guelph. , u (To be (()I1li11l1L`\1.) rev kai; called at ' proved to be his I had 1'0<'ui\'oxI word on my ;~:xs.< for Ameri<':1 had i and that I could leave zzxd I :v.c(-nrdingly told the was my immttion to leave L\.,_l. ll\'ll :1 day (`s" two la- \i. :1,-.-ruin. nnd s:zn:::- 11'iump`n:1nt : \\"1.~: `:0 In get <':!'n. at my 0(- \\'ov1< tu <=n:\l)le ,. L'}'1{ on l:i.~: sheet- No matter what happens. doctor. they declared-even if the worst comes to the worst and war is de- clared between America and Germany -you may feel quite sure the kaiser will never let anyone harm you." c 1.-.: ._..n. Int cl... nnnbfnr rucf than-A CUlXIlil1lCUD. ARTHUR N. DAVIS, D. D. S. Wlll Ilever n:I. uu_yuuu: mum 4...... I had not let the matter rest there. however. I had called at the Ameri- can embassy. where it was polnted out to me that, while dlplomatlc re- lations had been severed, It was not at all certnln that war would result and there was. therefore, no reason for me to leave Berlin preclpltately. tn": nu. Imlunr hnnn In Berlin nt 1 t :"lx111's(1a', N ovt-nn-r 21,, 1918. for [0 IEIIVE neruu pn:\;Apn.u|.cA_y. Had the kaiser been In Berlin at the time. I might. of course, have had -_ ......-..o....|m ha nnf thn nnostlnn to U19 time, 1 Illlgnt, UL IJUULBC, unvc unu an opportunity to put the question to him squarely as to what my fate might be it war were declared, but he was away. The court Chamberlain had een appointed but a short time before and I did not know him personally, but his predecessor. Count August Von Eulenburg, one 01: the wisest and most PREFACE CHAPTER I. America Must Be Punished! When war broke out between the United States and Ge1'L'i'.1ri_V, on April 6, 1917, I was in lloriin. I iizxd lived and pi':1c'.i<,-ed my pmfcs:~:ion as :1 dent- ist there for 14 years, and the kaiser had been one of my putiouts during all that time. 1- _I_..IL a__ _-_. -.__..n.. 1.-." vv1f\U'\VV Be t\1C I-. `_` ..................,.a..;...........,.....;.................................................................; (.q :`espoct men in Germany, was one uf my nltlvs` ;.;:iIieI1ts; and I (i('(`i1\`(i to diS(`llFF the . with him. Yn- fo1`tu1mt(~l_\', lmwe`-.'o1-, I f'.>llnr) him ton ii] 1.0 mm:-i\.'o me. 110 was (-i.:_:hl_v _'.*n:lr:< old and. zeltlmugli Hlll.lSll1lH_V \\'(-ll pru- s(~.r\`e(l, was in 110 cnmliiinn on this occzistimx to 1'('C?lV(" vi:~:ito1'.<. Another inuential patimlt of mine whom I so11;;ht out at this time was ex-Ambassador Von Sturm. Although he was now retired from oiciul life. he had formerly been a powerful g- ure In German state circles and still kept more or less in touch with the ` new court Chamberlain and others in high oice. His nephew was under secretnry of foreign affairs. 1 Fnnn fhn nv`_nrnhn:Enr\l nf hll secretary U1. 1Ul'l.`.lgL| uu.u.un. I found the ex-ambassador at his private apartment In the Adlon hotel. I-whgr will hnnnnn tn Amm-imns. ugunuan. up: nuuug . That, doctor, wlll depend entirely upon how America treats our sub- jects, he replied, somewhat more ` coldly than I had expected of him. It America interns Germans. of course, we shall undoubtedly treat Americans the same way, and you could hardly expect any special consideration. al- though, if you will wrlte a letter to the court Chamberlain, who ls 11 personal friend of mine, I shall see that he gets {p 1) p['lVU.l.U upurLu1euI. lu Lu:-: nunuu uuncx. What will happen to Americans, I asked, "if my country declares war agnlnst Germany? mm...` ,1,.,.+.-u. min Am-mud .-mHv-olv But, excellency." I replied, there is a treaty between Germany and Amer- ica, I 11nde1'st:1nr], which gives the sub- jects or citizens 01' one country who lxuppcn to he sn_`,011ming in the other when mu` is (locl-area nine moutlls wilhizn whiz-11 to dose up their z11`f:11rs and lezzw. Would not that protect ...-my LLLLJKSL u.u. nu. .v, no trouble. It await dcvelopr time you have 150..-. L10 |.1UllL):L . 1'. .\:ru..: LU un. _vvu nut.-H. u\'.':1it dm'u1o[u1~.:-ntuz mud, in the 1:~.e;1n~ 1l.'.t`.`( no cause for \vurr_V." S dpp()SL` some of your subjects in An`.-cz`ic~.1 should act up and stzirt bloxving up bridges or munition fac- tories and should be lynched, which they probal)1y would be, I suggested, what would Germany's course be? .mrn_,._ rv._.._.....- -..._..|.:a A. nu... HHHL nuulu \JE'L|lJ1lAl_y-3 Vuuxuu uuo Wlmt Germany would do then, doctor, he replied, slowly and thoughtfully, as though such a contin- gc-ncy had never occurred to him be- fore--real1y, doctor, I don't know what we would do!" rnLe.. ...............L.-.0. ....-..th.lnnLn-u-o {uh-n-, .1... ....... I don't knmv O).'. 1( H_'\` }1a'.v nzrtny visits the k;:is:>i' paid me 1>mfo:~. ion~ ally, but I l~:x1 w I am safe in .-<:iyin;: they were not less than 100, and the probabilities are they were closer to 150. Almost inva1`iabl_v, after my work was done. the kaiser remained any- , here from ten minutes to an hour nd a half to discuss the topics of the hour with me. \'rvl...... ...... ,1...-.1.-...m1 vrvnln um-.:nc+ (Ear. VVUHL VVC nuulu UV S This somewhat unsatisfactory inter- view with Von Sturm might have wor- ried me more, perhaps, had It not been for a visit I received only a day or two later from Prince V011 Pleas. one of the kalser s closest trlends and ad- vlsors, who called on me profession- ally. For a year and a halt the kalaer had had his great army headquarters at the prince : palace at Pleas, ln Ioutheutern Germany. and I knew that he enjoyed his monarch`: con- deuce. :71... w __l._) 1.1.. ........lI_a u: DEUCE. When I alked him regudlnz tho possible internment ot Americana. he assured me that. C0130 what might. I and my runny Ind not thn Iughtut hnannn On: nlnl-In u ALI] Lawn; nuon for alarm. 1111. __u.... -k. (`lulu LUF Illllfuh No matter what my befall other Amerlcans. doctor." he asserted, ln I condential manna. tho nlser bu gone on record to the effect that you and your family no not to be mo- lasted." A_-LL-_ l__lj__L ._.I.l.L 1-]. --A Another incident which made me feel that I could proceed with my prep- arations for leaving Berlin without un- due haste was the receipt early in the year of a most extraordinary post card from the kaiser which. it occurred to me, was quite signicant as to his in- teutiona regarding my welfare. On one side was his picture and on the other, written and signed in English in his own handwriting. was the message: Dear Doctor Davis: Wishing you a very good year for 1017 \VTT.Y.l'A1f T D" l vvmuiug Jun 3: vexy guuu year. nun 1917. WILLIAM I. B." This was the rst message of its kind that I had ever received from the kaiser. Even in pence times, the pic- . ture postnls which he had sent to me `from time to time and which were `autographed by him, were always i signed in German. When. on February :1. the Germans resumed their ruth- less submarine warfare--a move which `was immediately followed by the breaking oil! of diplomatic relations-I ifelt that the kaiser must have fore- fseen this consequence nnd had sent ime the postal. as an intimation that he wanted me to remain _in Berlin nevertheless. l "n , ..,, n,___,___ ___._ n__ y___, uc v c: \.ux.n.aa. } When the Germans sank the Lusi- , tania. living and practicing in Ger- 'many lost many or their attractions for me. I made up my mind then that I would rather return home and com- mence my professional career all over again, it necessary, than remain in a country which could sanction such a hideous form of warfare--the wanton destruction of women and children. To that end, I went to New York in the summer of 1915 to investigate the re- quirements for the practice of my pro- fession in that state. I had an Illinois license. but I wanted to be in a posi- tion to practice in New York, and the following year I went to New York again and took the state dental exam- ination. I returned to Germany late in the autumn o: 1916 and later I learned \.-Ju- , \.lU\. .-22., A mny will 1'5-rzpect I. to-.1 docs, and then 1 .. ..` he answered, the treaty if 1 there will he _ ___.. ..,... .\....-;. ,5`; W .q.. g..s. . x*.0<>0<>C <>O 00 <><><./'~\>'<><><'>o\<><><>'~ C><><`2</<>*v t.`:::f my co!`ticah= had been granted. 1'1;-=n 2 -mn1n~2r:.'-ed active prvpnrntions ' -:u:- of my (1-:-x-znan ]`\`;1C1.i(.`(` and ln-..~uu\, unvuu up My third reusnn, however, was by 211` tho nm::t insistcrit of 9.11. I 11:11.`. become convinrtod that wlmt I .':now of the lmiser and his pizins, now that we were at Wm`, ought to be com- munir-:i1:od to Arneric:-. without delay um} that the only way to do that side- quuteiy would be to get home as soon as I possibly could, no matter what personal sacrice might be involved in nbrmdoning my European practice and interests. ~r.. 4,, 1 1 i It is true that in the early years of my relationship with the kaiser our conversations naturally embraced only the most general of subjects, but in later. years, when he came to know me better. he cast aside all reserve and talked to me on whatever was upper- most in his mind at the time. After the war started that, of course,forn1ed the principal subject of our discus-` sions and the part that America was playing in the conlct was frequently brought up because of the fact that I ' was an American. /\ `u. . - u _ q u, u an uu uxuunnuuu. One memorable interview I had had 1 with him inuenced me perhaps more 1 than any other single factor to hasten the settlement of my European affairs . and return home. u A 4.... -.u uuu I yuuxu u\.u.u\.. It was in the fall of 1916. The knia ` set had come to me for professional 1 attention, and after my work was com- 1 pleted he remained to discuss -some` of the aspects of the war. Perhaps the fact that I had just returned from a i visit to America made him more than usually eager for a chat with me. 1 We had discllssod various r:`n:`.s of the \\':11', wlwn the 1 <:i)augz>d the ` subject utmlptly \\'it1)_,.*"`<`.-quL>s1.ion: D2xvis, \\'hat's_f-`. _ ' T with :;ou7.` . c0'.1n .1'y?" ' '- "'11 uvh-1+ vnunnn 1 4 r\::`(' '5" '.Y \.uuuu_y: "" In what respect,yuu.. ..'jesty?" I": asked. 1 nun... 2- :1. Ll._L __.._ -_____;..__ 2- .... I (.:..u.\.\|n Why is it that your country is so ` unfair to Ge-r1n:m_v? Why do you per- Sisi in supp1yin;: munitions and money to tine allies? Why dor>sn t your press- idout treat the Ellrnpouu wari-ing na- tions the same as he treated Mexico by putting an embargo on munitions, and letting us ght this thing out our- 1 selves? You do not ship munitions to us. why do you ship them to the other ` side?" 7 -...... A- ......I.. an... .5 -n{4-k J-A I-nlnnun V nxuvcx I was on such terms with the kaiser that I did not hesitate to answer his ` question with another. , HT kn-v.. n`IIvnv-vrv s vrnnh n`ux..:uuu nu... I.n|.|\II.AA\.L I have always understood. your majesty, that during the Russiun-Jnp- anese war, Germany continually sup-` plied munitions to Russia. Why was 3 that any more justifiable than America supplying munitions to the allies}: Then again. in the Spanish-Ame-rlcani II "Dnvls, you surprise me!" the kni- ser interrupted. rising from the opev 4 guns chair. in which he had romainnd. ' walking towards me, throwing back 1 his shoulders and rising to his full * height. The can no entirely dilem- ent. When we helped Russia ugainst Jnp n W0 were holplny a white rut agnlnst 1 yellow rue. don't ever for- so: that-don't our target that. But with America. that is certainly not tho cuss. Your country is acting tron purely mercoury motives. It in 3 can of dollu-I. doiluo. dolhn!"--ond each time he rcputod tho word ho: Itruck his partially hoipiou left hand violently with his powerful right. Americn voila dollnro more than aha "Juan German livu! She thinks it! right to shoot down my people." 1:. hut` uni-Irn hlinlolf n ha I (`Q- 110111` VVILII rue. When we declared war against Ger- many, therefore, while I was still an American citizen--as patriotic an American. I believe, as might be found anywhere--I had lived in Germany so long, had developed so many protes- alonal friendships in Germany's most favored circles and was so generally regarded as a particular favorite of -the kaiser himself, that I found it hard -to realize that nevertheless I had bo- come an alien enemy. I`l\L_ --_- .I.._ L- Iv..._I-In- -Q A! right to shoot down my peopie." we uunnuua. He had worked himself up to a do- Then. on October 24. just as things greo of indignation which I had seen were looking their blackest, the great him display only on two or three pro- German-Austro offensive against the vious occasions. and I must confess I Italians was started. In three days the was reluctant to start a tresh outburst Italians were swept out of Austria and by answering his arguments. Hi: the Teutons pressed forward to the eyes, usually sort and kindly. ashed passes west of the Isonzo river leading fire as he advanced towards me and E to the Venetian plains. By the end of slowly and incisively declared: Davis, ` October the Italian armies were in full America - must - be - punished - retreat. Before this offensive was over for-he1~--actions!" 'the Germans captured. they claimed, N In that expression, which he repeat- no less than 300,000 prisoners and sev- ` ed on subsequent occasions in pre- eral thousand big guns, besides vast `-1801? the lme words and with the ', stores of munitions and supplies. -__-_ ..-__..__-.l .._...s..__:,. 1- u.____. `.1.-. ,.,.,__ 4____A_` A, nu` nnmnu nvn`. L I ,. same measured emphasis, I knew that i he revealed mostly clearly what his at- ` 1 tltude was and will ever be towxrd 1 this country. 1 Tho Kaiser at Potsdam. I Getting out of Germany proved to be i a far more dlmcuit proposition than I I had imagined. | 'D--1x..:.... um; M .-mu-.1.I ~r\vIn`-\n`\`11 L- uuu uuugiurzu. Realizing that it would probably be several months before I could finally `v settle up my affairs, and that my child, who was anemic, ought to be taken out of Germany with as little delay as possible because food conditions were - fast going from bad to worse, I ap- ' plied to the kommandantur for leave to * have my wife and child go to Mon- treux. on Lake Geneu. Switzerland, where I hoped to join them at tho earliest possible moment and accom- pany them home. I did not relish the idea or their going across the ocean without me. rnL_4. -...._ I. `It... 11117 1V--l-- VVILIIUUI. I-|lCo That was in May, 1917. Week: passed while our application was going from one oicinl to another, lying, per- haps for days at a time under a pile of other appliqations of a sirnilinr char- acter or awaiting the investigation of our personal histories, and it was not until the end of June that we received any word regarding it. Then we learned that it had been denied, _ ,,- mi,-{ht he nocr:.<=.s:\r_v for me to ` in Eein, my wife and child rate should leave at the earliest ` - . l A.\ -.\u..u.:,-. uuu nu AJAIILLLL nun I \`- (ILL: IJCLUILJIIJS IUUIC kll.` every day. My wife and I hat our child, who was twc v1. might suffer from lack of .r)m'ishment if we remained -H-1'1:::1:.~,r`. ihut no matter how ni:r'.lf in '1m'1in, , _u.-..u.z u,..___- -4. n.,. ,.....u....L . I mun for wuntmg to get ` y as sunn as possible I :-at food cmxditions in becoming more pre- uu Ifw u-'xFn anti 7 CHAPTER II. THE NORTHERN ADVANCE --- wanna In unuu vucuqa The same day the breaking oil of diplomatic relation: WI! nnnounced, tho Gormsn newspaper: had published tho provisions oi! an old treaty be- tween Gernnny and the United Stntes which gun Amoricns in Germany and Germans in America nlnc months -I110!` n doclantion of war between the we nation: within which to some their aifain and leave the country. un-run- a...--o_ It slug naunannnauu nnlnt- . ` ,_ I This was my rst intimation that we ` might have uimculty in getting out of Gvrmrumv. A .1 .... 4...... Ins- 41`.-. 1..\:.....- manor`! L1`.'l'1!|21Kl_V". A _1:z_v or two later the kaiser called on me p1`()fw.<.~`i0naIIy and I told him of our plight. hupimr that he would inter- code for us. It was the only favor of a pcrsnmxl cimmcter I had ever asked of him. -nu. .~1.:1.1 :,. ..:1:.... ..,-.n.. .n.n`.mh-1 5 Y `. LUL DLKK 9 LIL-IE, ..... ,, As the food situation in Austria was just as bad as it was in Germany, it not worse, that idea didn't appeal to `me at all, and I went immediately to 'the kommandantur and explained the `situation to them. 1. 1 vvuu n\.~.\.~...u... . , n_._; _-__ ar,.1.u-..1... ' i I A {I l in I auuuuuu LU Lucxu. ` When they saw Count Von Mo1tke's tletter the officer in charge threw up his hands. I nrn1....v.. c....In I.,. 1`:-.r|`a\vI1\r1 uV`I"hn4- , ` October 10 and 12. I uu--.. .u.\.u .~..u wife, child mu] 1'ny: to :_'o to Amer- ica. _l.`he_\` pointed out at lhe l:mm::'1n- lnnmr that as my wife's zlmilimtion to leave Berlin DX'(`!'i_".ll_`(1 mint-, it was pos.~:ihle she would l'w:- :\llmved to leave before me. I tnlvl this otlict-1' that that Then I applied 1351` :1 pass for my K would suit me :ulinir:~.hl_\'. as I \\':mt(~d ; the puss for 1\I1`s. Daivis and the child 3 grnntetl at the e:u'lio. pu.<::ille m0- ; xnont 1vg:11`(lless of what action might ` .`be taken on my own :1pp1icution. `, Again there followed :1 long period `of anxious waiting while the German red tape slowly unwound, but eventu- `nlly, in September, we received word `that Mrs. Davis and the child might `leave Berlin for Copenhagen between They left on the `E tenth. _ _,, L4- 1.... .....................a I-`\r\ U133 LIEUJUB. That's nal, he declared. That comes from :1 higher authority than Iours. It is useless to pursue the mat- ,ter any further. We received :1 com- gmunication from his majesty regard- 5 in`; your case, but the miltter was left entirely to our r,`1iscx'c-tiun. t was not `:1 commuml, only :1 1'equc. from his mnjv. A command, of cuursu, would ` lmve been di1`t,'cre~ut. nu v .. 1 ,,__ ,_,._ ` l\`.'L|l..ll- i A day or two later commenced the 5 ; German offensive against Riga, on the *Bnitic. Within three or four days the Germans captured successively the Oesel, Runo. Obro and Moon islands in the Gui: of Riga and then carried their invasion to the mainland. Their apparent objective was Petrograd and on October 19 the Russians announced I that the seat of the government would be removed from Petrograd to Mos- \ COW. These successes on the Baltic failed to overcome the depression in Germany caused by the serious internal situa- tion in Austria at this period. Muni- tion factories were being wrecked by hunger-crazed and war-weary strikers and the populace was being shot down in great numbers in the food riots which developed in various parts of Austria. Not since the war began had (the outlook been so discouraging for the Germans. nus, __ r\-a..I.-_ 41,4 {"50 no I-I-ulna: `` most vivid in my uleiuury. . I It was about three-thirty one Sunday ! morning when I Wns aroused by a maid ` who, in an awe-stricken tone of voice, announced that the Neue Pniais, the` 1;niser s palace at Potsdam, was on the} phone. I went to the telephone andg i was informed that the kaiser was suf-: } fering from a bad toothache and would; 1 send his auto for me within an hour or I so. 1 K I got up at once and packed my in- i \ struments, and at six-thirty the car, 11' |.:.. ......n llnv-nnnu Hvnn11f:inF|_ Rl`l'iV(!d. Inereuy HJVIU : ncyuaum. End the situation been reversed. of course. the Germans would undoubt~ edly have thought it expedient to in- tern Americans no matter what hap- pened to their own countrymen in America, and, in that event, this an- cient treaty would have shared the fate or that which guaranteed Bei- glurn's neutrality. One scrap of pa- per" more or less would never have been allowed to interfere with Ger- many's` ``destiny." _! Inuential Germans who called to ' see me professionally during that pe- riod almost invariably expressed the hope that I was not planning to leave Berlin. six`-A rvunI>nII nvhnf hnnnnna dnr-fnr, i at the big gray Mercedes limousine, arrived.*_ `Besides the chauffeur there was am, ` outrider carrying the bugle whose dis-1 1 tinctive notes only the kaiser may use.. | 1xn.n- nu. Qknll v-nnnn and nth!!!` SN'1tB`l i tincnve notes only me Ixluacx um, ........ i While the Shell room and other stntegl !rooms were accessible to visitors be-5| fore the war. no one was ever permit; I ted to visit the private apartments of? i t he kaiser upstairs. I\n Okla nr-nncinn hnwf-`V(~`.l`. I Wllsl the kaiser upsuurs. , ` On this occasion, however. wnsi ` gulded right through the Shell room.} 5 through :1 door opening on the left and, gup :1 wide staircase to the ka1ser s: ` gurdembe, or dressing room. ( ` There I found breakfast ready for 5 me. It consisted of real coffee, real white bread. butter, mnmlnlnde. sugar. cream and cold meats. It was the first; my B to k0mn:'m- :1c`s `Lu! nnn H- u`nQ l fond of the kind I had eaten In`: . me .-mu} r-mcticnlly no one in :n:~n_v uux.~i.!oHwrnyn1 (`.:mE1_\' 1&1". . u , . |. -. .. rt` .\..... u lid` 1 -.4.`~ y'Yl\'Jli\:x'v\\rlAl~:, ILL l`.glI- u \ I \'m:: L`m~<.'in;:. 111$ \'uI=_=t entered sev- eml times I noticed, to take out m'ti- ` (-205; of clothing from the massive vczxrdrohos which lined the room. I had I just ('n1nplotod my meal wllon I re` H-1\'C'.} \\'01'\1 that my patient was ready ! `1\ o-nnnh-n run rt nu: -. nu un. \.\.|.n.vl room, fully attired in an urrny ;;r:x:,' unif<~.'rm, but without his s\\`o1' 11: 1~mk(`(l more h:1;:;;ard than I had ever seen him, except once in 1915. Lack of sleep and ph_vsical pain \.\`Cl`C two things with \vhi(.'l\ he had had very Kittie experience. and they (certainly .~=)3m\`0('l their effects very plainly. 11, .1: 1..u_ -.- .. L/- 1.- 1.. 1|... I\.`.~a- A4` ` .un\.u u-nu \.Al.\.\.\>J van; 1.......-_;. I10 (lidxft seem to be in the bc::~'t of 3 humor hut greeted me cordially enough ; and shook lmmls. - ] E In all my life, Davis." he suitl, I ; have never stxffcred so much pain." I ..~.n.u~:n/I rnn urn-unuv nut] chm-fnr` liil\'l` L1L'\L`l' bllll(_`l'L'\l bU LHUCH [.'iUlI. I (.`XDI`\`SSCL1 my so1`1'o\v and sturtcw`. to improvise a dental chair out of un uphoistercd zxrlnchnir on which I placed some pillows and, as the kaiser sat down, he laughingly remarked: An ...I. |........ T\.. ..,...v.... ...,\4- 4-,` .`ln :ulk uunu, ut: nuu_'_"u|u[=,n_y A I;x.u..u u\,u . Look here, Davis, you've got to do snmet1)ix1g for me. whole world, you know. and have :1 toothache!" IYVI. .... 7 LI` `Inc. "J. I can't ght the l\v-tr` R85 Y|(1;I'\ For 14 _ve:1rs: the lizxisrer was my patient. All I Lznmv of him and 1.11 that he told mo (-mm` to me while the relation of pntiem` and dentist (.-xistvd hotxveon us. .. 1 42.14 .-.4 (`mne- 1:-.. .1...` .. lUULllil\.'H`\5 When I was through and his pain was relieved, his spirits seemed to re- vive appreciably, and he explained why it was he was so anxious to have his tooth trouble removed as quickly as possible. I rnnuf an nxvn fn Tfnlv .nn\'iS." possune. I must go down to Ita!y..Davis," he said, to see what my noble troops have accomplished. My gracious. what we have done to them down there! Our offensive at Riga was just .. c.-.:...o- in head ovnrcml nur in- ()ll0ll.\`l\'(_ . We let them go ahead and waitvrl patiently for the right mmxent. They V thought that their conic-m1>l:1ted offen- sive must inevitabl_\' bring our weaker neighbor to- her knees and force her to make a separate peace! By oul weaker neighbor the kaiser, of course, referred to Austria, and how accurate was his information regarding Italy's expectations and how easily they might have been realized were subse- quently revealed by the publication of that famous letter from Kaiser Karl to Prince Sextus. n._.n 4.1.-.. n 4.1-... I-..t..-- nan! nn uncut; Uul Uucuanvc zu. Ll-A511 `run ;a feint. We had advertised our in- ; tended offensive in Italy so thoroughly ~ that the Italians thought we couldn't possibly intend to ezxrry it through. For three months it was common tall; ` Germany, you remember, that the _;u..... 1 in `ll great offensive would start in October, i and so the Italians believed it was all 3 a bluff and when we u(l\`ance(l on lliga they were sure of it. Tlmy thought we ` \\'<-re so occupied there that we could 1-:13` no attention to thvm, and so we . caugzht them napping!" ` The l;:iiser s face f:1i1'ly l>o;-.med as l he dwelt on the .st1`atog_V of his ;:r.-n- vz-nls nml the s11(-(`<`<~s1'ul outcome of their Italian czunpaijzu. "Iw`n1' months Italy had ht-on (.`UjJl;.'\"`(l in planting: her lo-1;; _::un:< on the moun- tain-tups and gatlie1'in:.; mountains of _ annnunition and supplies and fowl and 5 hn. iial sumwlios in the valleys helmv, `, in prt-paration for their twelfth Irsouzo : ollensive. Aux` .. I na. 41. I\b`\Q nn r\`\nnl1 nnfl nvnitntl |.U Kllutc >J!:AI.u-1. And then." the kaiser went on. "when their great offensive was within a week of being launched we broke through their lines on a slope 3,000 feet high. covered with snow. where they couldn't bring up their reserves or new guns, and we surrounded them! un-7.. 5.... nmnnnnllw n-nu-vfhlno fhev them! We took practically everything they possessed-dfood enough to feed our entire army without calling upon our own supplies at all. Never before had our armies seen such an accumulation ` of ammunition. I must certainly go down to see it. - um- ...a. ..n n...|- -....u...-sn I-ah-out QOWII 30 sec IL We cut off their northern retreat I and, as they swung their army to the south. we captured 80.000 of them up to their knees in the rice elds. One of the great mistakes they made was in carrying their civilian refugees with them-eiogging their narrow roads and impeding the retreat of their soldiers. We had taken possession of their most productive regions, and their retreat was through territory which yielded them nothing. Just think of that re- treating army thrown upon the already impoverished inhabitants of that see- 8011. Why, they l1 starve to death! u1.1.......-.-lunnn mn man} mp fnnnd tiuu. Wny, they 11 swrvc w ucuun . Everywhere we went we found their big guns abandoned. In one small village we came upon 9. gun dec- orated wlth owers and surmounted with a portrait of Emperor Franz Jo- sef. It had been put; there by the Ital- ian inhabitants of the village to show their happiness at being released at last from the yoke of the intolerable Italian lawyer government! How ter- ribly the Italians must have treated them! Italy will never get over this defeat. This was real help from God! Now, we've got the allies!" and he struck his left hand with his right with great force to emphasize his apparent conviction that the turning point in the war had been reached with Italy's ...Il.-.-xnn I Luv: nun u collapse. 'T`Iun 9 th collapse. That the kalser now regarded him- self and hls armies as invincible I felt. and I feared that the success in Italy would be followed at the first favora- ble opportunity by a gigantic ottenslve on the western front. I 1..A.-..-"I nn n cnhcnnuonf n(`('S10l1. unu uuuurll l.'.\l.\1I'.l IIl'|\Vl`K'H us. For that reason I fell: nt first that, no matter how vital to the allied cause; might be the infor- mation I could give as to the kai- ser s viewpoint, ambitions and plans, the requirements of pro- fessional ethics must seal my lips and compel me to withhold it from the world at large. \l'7h..n hnuvnunn T nnna{nv-or` E the western 1l'0D\'.. Indeed, on a subsequent occasion. when he called at my office for further treatment, and again referred to the Italian triumph, he remarked: If our armir-s could capture 300.000 Itn1ians-- n nd those 300.000 might just as well be Hoar] as far as Italy is concei-ned-we .1.. H... unvnn Hwlnw nmiinst our (l4`3I'l as 1111` ms uuly la l;U|.|L.clur;u .... can do the same thing against our K.`lM`n1i(?S on the west!" nvx.: ....-..~ l\VIl\ AP f`1n`nfnF\"O\\'G T was ` mwnnns 011 Inc: west`. This was one of the interviews I was so nnxinus to report to the representa- tivvs of the American intelligence de- ` mr.`mont at our legutlon In Copen- n::gvn nml. later on. when I xmlly ar- '\|.'A\ \; In. I entvred the `:15 sr:1ndin_:.: in 1 2 k:1iscr`s bedroom] ` the center of the 1 1` shine n Ger- l".I thv 2-Ex-mi: in that city, I related it In great !v`.:1H 2.. zlwzn. I remained in Copen- -`.\-vn dnys and during the --:.x-: of that time I was being `..3: Nut! 01- another of tho - mi our intelligence de- ;-:n-nn.-.'.:. I. :-H_\' two months later, un Mm-.-1: :11, um \'cos1'orn offensive broke out as I hm`; fc.-n'v(I. I (`zlvd at 1`ot.=(I:nn :1 two : L.\.. 4.. ..A-...\1 4|. 1-. ....-..:.. and Iu`I. nu.uu`.,. the 20th `Cam been gmmto on the :;mh, u_,_:._-_. .1...` 2 l\A|lu`l'l Llhii. l`. fm` Cup:-nh:1{.:vn on that (,in_\'. I (*XD1:liI1(3(1 t`.1:-.1 1 \`.':1s completely run dm\'n---:111 I ca-1`t:1in1_v lnokul it-- amd that it vrus necossaugv I01` me to got to Copenluxgren m1_v\v:1_v, so that I could get in touch with America re- gmding :1 porcelain tooth patent which had been granted to me in July, 1915, but which :1 large dental company was seeking to wrest from me. The patent authorities had delayed action because of the fact that I_ resided in an enemy; country. nn um 0cm 1 rnrtaivn n `lnffpr from `nun |;|`\ Inn: ....w.. u. .\_..... ised for the ;;U1'n. Na-\'(~1`t11o1<-.~.<, the 30th came around 1 and the 1):1.<<.< didn t', and the boat which sailed from ("_?opon`.m;:(`11 on Dccomber 7, whic-11 I had plmmcd to tame, sailed wi(hn'.'.l: A , -. ".1 v. .n1.-e f`.-.Hn\t'n _ 44.- ... II. 1l'UIXl U16 wunu Lll. Huge. When, however, I considered the grave crisis that confronts ` the world and in which my own `country is playing so important a part, and realized that What I knew of the kaiser might prove of some value to civilization. I concluded that my patriotic duty was paramount and rose su- perior to any of the ordinary de- munds of professional ethics. Yn 9-hie nnnr-Inulnn T van

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