THE KAISER’S SOAP.
NEW BOSWELL’S PICTURESQUE TALES OF THE ALL-HIGHEST,
The Kaiser has found his Boswell it Hevr Karl Rosnerf the war correspondent of the Lokal Anzeiger, who now retails to the German public all the wise and humane utterances which the All-Highest has been making of late in the course of his tour round the battlefields of Flanders. He faithfully records how the Kaiser. as the clock strikes one, sits down to his soup, which he brings with him m a thermos saucepan, and how he afterwards idyllically. busies himself with picking fresh violets in order to send! them as a present to the Kaiserin. Rosner accompanies the Kaiser on his round and witnesses his meeting with a squ-ad returning from the battlefield.
“What is Tommy doing?” asks the Kaiser.
“Tommy is running away, your Majesty,” is the reply.. “Let him run, then,” observes the All-Highest. “We must not interfere with people who are in a hurnr •
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4900, 20 June 1918, Page 3
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158THE KAISER’S SOAP. Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4900, 20 June 1918, Page 3
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