SHELTER READY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 263, 7 November 1939, Page 7

SHELTER READY.

CELLARS AT DOORN.

Ex-Kaiser Feels Pinch Of Money Control. STUDIES ENGLISH PAPERS. (Special.—By Air Mail.) DOORN (Holland), October 19. Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm 11., who sent )onibing 'planes and Zeppelins over Britain in the last war, has just lini.-«lie<l supervising workmen in the job (if turning the cellars of his Dutch home into an air raid shelter. The arches have been reinforced with thick concrete and piled up with sandbags. There is ample room for all his staff of 00, and, in addition, 40 inhabitants of tlie village of Doom will be admitted if necessary. Must Show Deference. But. even if tltere should be an air raid, t • Maff and villagers, must remember the deference clue to an ex-war lord. In the safety of tlic cellar shelter have been placed two high imperial chairs, side by side. They are for the ex-Kaiser ami his wife. Members of the staff, and \ illagers, hum sit side bv side on rows of forms. The ex-Kai-er ha« tightened up household expenditure in every direction. There is long: delay now in getting monev from his German possessions. Only the smallest orders on which the household can manage are being given to the butcher and baker, and gtic.-ts are no longer invited to the house. Very sparing use is made of Wilhelm's car, to save petrol. Studied Maps.

He no longer goes woodchopping on the estate with his adjutant, Major Ilsemann, because the major has gone to serve with the German Armv.

Five other members of the stafT at Doom have been called to work-in the Gorman Legation at The Hague.

Wilhelm spends hours every day studying war maps. When the war broke out he gave an order for English newspapers, and lie reads them from front to hack, missing nothing.

.Meanwhile tlie war is causing diflfi cutties at several villages which are cm in two l>y the Dutch-(ierinan frontier

tile Nazis have closed the border in tlie<~e places, and do not allow Germans to visit their Dutch friends or s|>eak to them across the dividing line.

Children are not allowed to get back footballs which are kicked over the frontier.