“EX-KAISER” IN PARIS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 12 January 1926, Page 7

“EX-KAISER” IN PARIS

AN AMUSING .MISTAKE j;K.MAIIKAIILK WE6K.UBLANC’-K Certain Parisians were shocked and sonn'ised to hear (he oilier day that the e:-, k user was visiting the capital incognito and had been discovered in o well-known shoemaker ~ esla'ilishmeut in t}><- Avenue d<- I'Opera. writes UnPans correspondent of a l.ondon paper, il was shortly he fore mid-day when a 1 1 ignli ied I commanding presence. willi the lainotis "War laird" moil stacliix now grey, and a heard easily recognisable bv all who have seen recent' portraits' of the exiled monarch, entered a hoot shop in company with a ladv. The. assistants looked at one another in amazement, and one went off to tell the proprietor that the exEmperor Wilhelm was in the shop. They were told to sav nothing and to express no surprise. hut it was not without many a curious glance that the* cashier took down the address of the I onite do Montlleury, to which the couple's purchases were to he. sent. The personnel of the establishment were u-rtain that they had discovered the ex Kaiser in disguise, for ill addition to the resemblance of face and heard t !u-v had been quick to it’d ice the eharaeteristic pose of the left arm. which looked as though paralysed, and the finn had recently had several orders from Doom. Furlhermore. the address given by the Comte de AlonUleury was That of’ an hotel much favoured liv wealthy German visitors. The ex-Crown Priilce* frequently stayed there before the war. The sensational story was already being whispered abroad when ;i simple inquiry knocked the bottom out of it. The Comte de .Montlleury was not an incognito, but the real name of a deputyJudge of Havre who- is now visiting Paris.