WILHELM’S EXILE

Gisborne Times, Volume L, Issue 5072, 15 January 1919, Page 5

WILHELM’S EXILE

ENFORCED SOJOURN IN ALGIERS.

A FRENCH PROPOSAL.

Australian and N.Z; Cable Association.

(Received Jan. 14, 7.20 p.m.) PARIS, Jan. 13. It is reported that the French are demanding at the~'Peace Conferencethat the ex-Kaiser and all male members of the Imperial, family shall beexiled to Algiers. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received Jan. 14, 7.20 p.m.) PARIS, Jan.. 11. A statement, is made that the French general staff is responsible for the proposal that the male members of the German Imperial family should be banished to Algiers on the ground that, there would be no safety while the Hohenzollerns remain at liberty.

EX-KAISER’S INVESTMENTS IN CANADA*

PROPERTY TOTALLING NINE MILLION DOLLARS.

In a recent issue of the Toronto Globe, the following "message from Chicago, under date November 15, appeared the following:— On the heels of the former Kaiser William’s abdication, Federal authorities are investigating to discover the identity of a syndicate of Ger-man-Americans, among whom are believed to be several Chicagoans, who are said to be the nominal holders of property owned by the Kaiser and valued at millions.

The Department of Justice inquiry, being aided by the forces of the Custodian of Alien Enemy Property. centres "round Count Alvo von ’ Alvensleben, held prisoner for the duration of the war as a German spy at Fort Douglas, Salt Lake, Utah. It involves the transfer of millions of dollars’ worth of timber, and mineral lands in the north-west and in Canada by von Alvensleben, the ex-Kaiser’s agent, to Americans of German nativity, to evade their seizure by the Canadian and United States Governments.

x Bureau of Investigation and War Intelligence agents are investigating a secret meeting von Alvensleben is alleged to have held at the Stratford Hotel on September Bth, 1915, . attended by several Chicagoans, who, prior to the war, were .close to the ■lifiperial German Government, as well as several others from New York. It is said that at the conference the details of the transfer of thousands of acres of Canadian lands belonging to the ex-Kaiser were arranged, and the transactions were so manipulated as to baffle completely the efforts of secret agents to trace the deal. At that meeting, it is claimed, among the properties of the exKaiser transferred to Americans as nominal holders -were:- Fifteen valuable timber tracts on the Pacific Coast; a large number of mineral lands, both in operation and undeveloped, located in the interior of Canada; fourteen timber tracts on Vancouver Island, which the Canadian Government had wished to buy to complete the Strathcona Park Reserve; a block of timber land reaching' from the .Pacific Coast far into the interior, and worth, approximately, 9,00q,000d015. The Canadian lands, it is said, were originally held under the firm name of “Alvo von Alvensleben, Limited,” which firm made tremendous investments in Canadian real estate, especially in timber lands. The headquarters were located at Vancouver, with branch offices at Victoria, B,C.

Associated with Count Alvo von Alvensleben, who was a lieutenant in the Reserve of the Second Cuirassier were his three brothers—Joachim, Constantine, and Bobo. The latter was a lieutenant .of the Fourth Cuirassier Regiment, 'Federal agents say, and Constantine a lieutenant of an infantry regiment.

Government efforts revealed the fact that those who had to do with the ex-ruler’s financial affairs have been the same persons' who participated in violent anti-American plots and German propaganda in this country.