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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11473, 27 February 1918, Page 8

During the British raid on Mannheim on Christmas Evo the Kaiser and his staff had mi extremely narrow escape. They were returning from the Verdun trout on their way ti Berlin, and the imperial special train passed through Mannheim station a bar.o.hour before the structure was partially wrecked by British bombs. The train was, in fact, the last to leave Mannheim, and none has since arrived at Basle from that point. The permanent way has been destroyed for some distance beyond the station, thus cutting off communication with the north.