KAISER BILL'S RED LIST.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXI, Issue 16690, 21 July 1916, Page 2

KAISER BILL'S RED LIST.

NAMES OF MEN WITH A PRICE ON THEIR HEADS.

One has often heard of people being on the Black List. It has remained for Prussian Headquarters to compile a Red List of persons who, for one reason or another, ar,e specially obnoxious to the crazy Kaiser or his satellites.

This list would form interesting reading, could a complete copy be obtained. As it is, we only know of a comparatively few individuals whose names are on it, but this we do know—that every one has a price on his head, and that some of the rewards offered are pretty large. That gifted Dutch cartoonist, Mr. Louis Raemaekers, is probably somewhere near the top. We are aware that no other living person has so deeply stirred the fury of Germany's ruler. There is, no doubt, a large fortune "n store, for any German who can do him to death.

MADE THE KAISER FURIOUS

There are many airmen on the list. For one, a captain in the French service, it is known that a sum of £1250 >s offered. This captain has accompanied his own raiding planes on a score of different occasions, and armed with a mitrailleuse kept enemy aircraft at bay while the other French planes drop the bombs.

He aJways waits to watch the effect of the bombs, and then foflfcws his men home. On one occasion he had to fight three German planes, one after another, on his way home, and brought tl^m all down. He is said to handle :i quick-firer better than any other man in the air service. What has1 so particularly infuriated the Kaiser against him is that he has, on three separate occasions, bombed the powder works at R- in Germany, and each time succeasfullv. A JOURNALIST WHO TOLD THE TRUTH. There must be quite a number of journalists and Press correspondents on the list. One in [ articular, of British birth, who, posing as a neutral, went into Belgium no longer ago than last .(autumn, is a particularly pet aversion of the Huns. This gentleman brought back and published details of the way in which the Belgians wer suffering under the Iron Heel, and his revelations cabled to America did the Allies' cause much service in the United States. The same correspondent also succeeded in bringing back yith him to London samples of the cotton substitute which the Germans are making from wood pulp and of their rubber substitute.

Other additions to the "R,ed List" are at least two British submarine commanders,, one of whom distinguished himself by sinking a large German transport in the Baltic, and so perhaps just turning the scale in the frantic attempt of the Huns to break through to Riga last autumn.