KAISER IN RETREAT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12718, 13 August 1919, Page 4

KAISER IN RETREAT.

“ I saw the former Emperor and former Empress of Germany sitting in a summer house in a garden between the two moats in the castle in Darby and Joan style for two hours this morning.” Thus writes a correspondent to an American paper on June 13. The day being a holiday, Wilhelm did not go through with his daily forenoon performance of sawing up little Christmas trees. Ho wore a dark blue suit and a yachting cap. The former Empress, dressed in white, was reading to him. apparently from a newspaper, as she does on other days when ho is exercising.

Visitors to Amerongen on bicycles who had been waiting to see him stopped on the path when it was known that he was in the grounds, but were quickly moved on by vigilant gendarmes.

Members of the Bentinck family appear to believe that the distinguished guest will return to Germany in the near future. ‘ After seven months the honour thrust uppn tf.ie family by the Dutch Government does not look so great to them. Persons who see the former ruler daily assert that his health is quite a-ood now, and that lie is enjoying the balmy summer weather. Like the former Crown Prince, he does not appear to suffer over what has happened to Germany. Only the former Empress grieves over the fallen fortunes of her country. Army Surgeon Forster, of Berlin, attends them daily.