TRUTH TOLD TO KAISER.
"YOUR SCAMP OF A SON." GENERAL'S LESE-MAJESTE. ' Pahis, March 31. The Figaro vouches for the truth of the story that the Kaiser was dining at a hotel in Luxemburg in August when a certain general arrived. The Kaiser in a frantic rage upbraided him for uselessly sacrificing thousands of his best soldiers in capturing Longwy, defended only by a few battalions. The general went livid, and exclaimed : " The soldiers' close formation was the reiterated orders of your scamp of a son, who was at a safe distance!" The general bowed, withdrew, and blew out his brains on the pavement. A week later a postcard bearing the Crown Prince's portrait was selling throughout Germany, inscribed " Victor of Longwy."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15884, 3 April 1915, Page 8
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