THE GREY MAN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16330, 20 January 1921, Page 6

THE GREY MAN.

WILHELM IN HOLLAND. ■ LONDON, Januarr ?. H Lady Aorah Bentinek, a niece Count Bent inch, contributing an intimate store' to the " Week A Dispatch, states that Count- Bentinek originally agreed to receive the former Kaiser, at the urgent request of the Dutch Foreign Office, until a suitable lodging

: could be found. Willie!inks first words on crossing trie ! moat bridge of the castle were. “ Now. give me u cup of rejd, good Engl Lb j tea.” 1 During a long stay he impressed everybody as being greatly chanced. I There were no signs of the old War Lord. To-day Tie is n grey man. with grey dress, face and hair, a steely eye, a. short and sofe white beard, and a drooping moustache. His swashbuckling has vanished, and he i« simple, benign, elderly and unobtrusive. Sometimes he shows symptoms of cxrr mo '-msion. H-> no longer laughs, j but sometimes smiles. Ho likes to I come and go unnoticed. He never

I leaves the former Kaiserin for long. » ( He recently expressed his i thus: “The world says T am ’ it. knew rhe i rein endow-, difficnlfil^^HHj i ham had lo contend rdr.T; ir. wr.uld : haps he surprised that I am still at i ' M