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Cross-examined by Mr. Morris, K.D., Miss Bowman said that the lowest priced gown was 20 guineas.
KAISER'S LAST PHASE.
PEOPLE.
THE CHINA MAIL."
ed out of the Hotel Britannique, which became "German Grand Bead
GOVERNOR LEAVES.
FAREWELLS AT MURRAY PIRE.
DESERTED BY HIS ARMY AND quarters, were living at the Villa Claremont opposite, and watched all the comings and goings, and saw von Hindenburg and his companions walk This morning HK. the Governor, into the hotel gardens and hand their Reginald Stabbs, left Murray Fier Kaiser the decisive repart from the
The following narrative of the last day of the reign of the ex-Kaiser was collected by the Daily News special correspondent at Spa a few weeks after the Azuistics.
at which determined his resignation to board the xx. "Empress of Rai" They did not know until some hours Many people gathered at the Pier, in- later that they had been peeping at an lading Sir William Rees Davies, Sir historic pane.
Robert Ho Tung, the Hon. Col
There were meetings held at various Nicholson, Hon. Hears. Claud Severs, times during the day at the Kaiser's. H. Kemp, T. L. Perkins, A. Th residence (ths Villa Neubois) at Grand Headquarters (the Hotel Britannique) Lowe, E. & Irving, A. G. M. Fletcher, and at Hindenburg's residence (the V. D. Parr, E. R. Halifax, Villa Sous Bois.)
H. W. Bird, Chon Shou Son, Ng Hon Overnight the Kaiser was left Tsx, A. O. Lang, O. Montague thinking hard how to find a way out Ede, Commodare Grace, Bishop of the difficult situation that con- Duppuy, Bishop Pozzoni, Mr. fronted him.
Faal Kremer, Commander C W.
."
A great deal of romance has been written upon what notable people happened to be doing when the call cama to take soprene decisions.
On the morning of November 9, 1918, the day of his abdication and fight, William II, was pottering about in the bed of a hill-aide stream, one of the feeders of the waters which tumble through the gorge that separates the public. Promenade d'Orleans on the Spa Halmedy Road
Prince Max of Baden would Beckwith, MT. Justice J. R. from the private grounds of the Villa Neubois, where he stayed near Ger abdicate. His military leaders in G. Alabaster, Ho Fook, D. W. A. Dyer Ball, resign on the morrow if he did not Wood, Mears. man Headquarters while they were stimated a landslide in loyalty. Re-Trataan, E. D. C Wolfe, P. P. J. presentatives of the various armies in Wodehouse, J. W. Franks, G. N. the field had been summoned to Spa. Orme, and H. Green.
M: Justice McCardio: I should like to know what is the proper measure of dress for a counters. What | Spa. number of dresses would a countess have as a rule sach year It is rather difficult to say.
before Mr. Justice McCardie, Earl Cathcart, of Pont-street, S. W., was Later Miss Bowman said the nam sued by Miss Gray, Ltd, of Brook-ber would be 30 or 40 dresses a year street, W., for £215 for eight gowns
for day and evening wear and about supplied to Countess Cathcart, whom 12 sports suites in addition. There he divorced recently.
The defence would be extrs gowns for such events
as the Monte Carlo season,
no
Yes.
For some time before he resigned the Imperial throne, and was hustled out of the royal tázons of Prussis by
The picked troops who ware guar? His Excellency arrived by dr Berlin politicians, the Eiser's Cally headquarters held a meeting in the accompanied by Capt. Neville and exercise took the form of digging park, at which they were asked if Mr. Eric Rice. He shook hands with
they would. fru
that the assemblage and then boarded a channels, like a child at the seaside.
brothers already in revolt at Cologne launch.
verviers, if they marched on Spa Aix-la-Chapelle, and as close at hand demand the abdication of the Kaiser. The answer was that they would note
KAISER'S LITTLE BRIDGE.
A bridge of stores the Kai er had constructed with his own hande atrasto one of the trenches dug by him about a foot wide-was sufficiently
intact at the end of the winter to be
the Kaiser.
considered locally worth preserving-ed the deputation of soldiers to Hindenburg knew this when he head Nearly every morning while he was at German Headquarters at Spa. William II. spent from eight to ten o'clock digging in the banks or bed of this stream.
was "that the countess had
Would you give the same allowance authority to pledge his credit, and that an allowance of £950 per anum
se that to the wife of a baronet was sufficient for necessaries.
Mr. Justice McCarrie, corciading Mr. Hilbery, supporting the claim, explained that in June 1920 Countess his investigation as to wardrobes, Cathcart went to Miss Gray, Ltd, observed: Ordinary members of with a card of introduction. Gowns knighthood must be getting quite were selected, including two for even-nervous, I should think
Mr. Frederick W. Shingleton, ing wear, at prices varying from £21
The ex-Kaiser must have known to £33 128. She inquired the prices, chairman of directors of Miss Gray. and di not behave in
reckless Limited, said that when the dresses for weeks that trouble was accumalat manner, said consel. at the time. ware ordered the company gave crediting on all sides, yet he preferred to She was then, to the knowledge at the to the earl and not to the countess stay at Spa, which was "the front" earl, going about to the society social functions as he desired her to do.
Mr. Harold Morris, KC for Earl Cathcart, en mitted that the only question was income.
Mr. Hilbery: What represents the for the confiding Berliner who thoughtleast noise disturbed him--and where
ordinary figure for a person in the position of a cruntess to incor in dress bills in one season!-Some bifs would be £400, £500, and £600. We have Mr. Hilbery said the earl was clear-knows them to go to more than
£1,000 in a season of six months.
ly responsible for anything his wife did in accordance with the style of living saitable to her position. It was impossible for her to appear day by day and week by week among the same set of people in the same circle in the same clothes.
of the people who spend most money Mr. Morris: I dare say that some with your firm are not countesses or titled people That has often happened in recent years.
Dress prices bave gone up, but among the aristocratic classes the Mr. Hilbery said that to keep in scale as regards numbers has gone
dowat-I should say not.
Mr. Justice McCardie: Why?
this circle and hold her own in it the counteas mus have dresses.
Not owing to taxation 1-A woman who has a position to keep up will
Coner maintained that things had were too far, and that it would be possible to undertake the campaign favoured by the Emperor. They could not count on food from
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The resembly place of the connee! los invited to Spa was at the Hote Britannique, where the General Staf "The army is no longer bezind worked in a large sait of rooms over your Majesty." he insisted in brutal looking the garden where Ludendorfi contradiction to the optimism shared had a soundproof room-he was of by Schulenberg and Plessen. such a nervous temperament that the The Kaiser interrupted the wrangle to ask Schulenberg and Groner na the Kaiser also had a private room, what gounds they had formed such the one on the first foor protruding divergent opinions concerning the over the main entrance.
feelings of the army, and whom they When German headquarters took had consulted. Each officer contend- over the hotel it belonged to theed that he had the very best trasons was in his mind during some panicky"honeymoon couple suite,” and was for putting forward the wi ws he bid, night before he abdicated with ron style. consultations which took place the beautifully furnished in Louis XVI and then the Kaiser, passing over the head of Groner, turned to Hindenburg Hindenburg, General Groner, Chief of
and Schulenberg, and said to them: the General Staff, and Geners! von
the War Lord was with his troops, in stead of going to field headquarters to be near his harassed armies or to Ber
in to face the rising storm.
The thought of both these things
Fles an
in command.
THE D.
When the Crown Price, with Count von der Schulenberg, arrived at Head- quarte to take part in the Imperial You two must give me your Hindenburg and Graner took the pow-wow the Count, as he says, found view at the military pow wow that everybody depressed and a state of opinions in writing, but not before things bad gone so far that no action general disorder. He met General you have questioned all the officers of the Kaiser's conld save the sitas von Plessen and General Baron Fou don't want civil war I have aly Remember this, I tian as there were not sufficient loyal Marschall in the ball, and they told ons desire and that is to lead the troops, to count upon, while von him that Hindenburg bad just an-
the lines that the Kaiser and the out in Germany, that the 'revaln army thould not be dictated to by tiguists, supported by soldiers, held violent revolutionists.
the railways, telegraphs and Rhine bridges and could starve the army at the front.
Mr. Justice McCardie: Do you still order the same number of dresses. Plessen took up a strong position onnounced that revolution had broken army back into the Fatherland in or- Į
mean that a constant change of dress
in a condition of your remaining in a certain circle of society? It must
MARG CATHCART'S EVIDENCE. Earl Cathcart in evidence said he be a rigorous circle. How often mutlived in Pont-street till a fortnight you change your dresa?
Mr. Bilbery: Women's rigorous treatment of each other on the sub- ject of dress is hardly to be exag gerated.
tem, with regard to the allowance
THE CLIMAT
unaware on the morning of Novem- The Kaiser could not have been her 9 that events had reached their
climax.
D. Ibruck, former Minister of Colonies; Between November 1 and 8.
·
**ALL GONE MAD,”
derly ranks."
Germany in close ranks, and in or ti, Groner: "The army will retorn to under its officers and generals, but not under the leadership of your Majesty." Schalenberg: "You are wrong." Hindenbury: "All the news from You have all gone made here!" the front and from Germany renders exclaimed Schulenberg. "The army the abdication of is with the Emperor!"
your Majesty Proceeding to the Villa Neubois von Groter nor myself can guarantee absolutely necessary. Neither Gengrai |
the Count found the Kaiser there with Hindenburg, Groner, vai Hintz
The Kaiser: "You will consult all my superior commanding offices as to Gruman (of the cams Department), the state of fe and Major Niemann.
that the army is no but not before." longer with me then I am ready to go
in 1919 she was a widow with a boy ago. When he married the countess of 8 and a girl of 6. She told him that the bad means for her children. Cunsel, proceeding, said the coup-extravagant-Most extravagant. From the time you married was your
then made to her, aid that the es / Earl Cathcart said be remonstrated Drews, the then Prussian Minister of with von Plessen and von Marschall, the fidelity of the army any longer." did not provide her with a car, and with her continually. He said a boy she had to pay her own taxicab farea was born in August 1919. out of it, provide her own maid, the maid for the little girl, and all petty cash disbursements. She also said the earl required her to meet her own doctor's bills.
Mr. Justics McCardi: Does the duty fall upon me to determine how many dresses a countess should wear in London soci-ty?
Mr. Hilbery: That is a part of the case your lordship will have to
decide.
GRUMBLING NOT ENOUGH.
Mr. Hilbery said if the countess was clothing herself, or going about
in a manner unsuitable to the earl's means, Earl Cathcart, in order to
much?
Mr. Hilbery: If the wife refuses
the Interior; and Schiedemann tad euccessively been announced in
About September 1919. Earl Berlin as having gone to the front to former Minister of Foreign Affah the state of feeling in the army.. IF
Cathcart said, he arranged to give Lady Cathcart an allowance of £50 a mouth-and told her she must not exceed it, as it was really more than he could afford. There was a reason why he had not given her an allow ance before.
are the Kaiser, and had visited him at Spa to tell him that the home front was crumbling and to persuade him to abdicate.
"I beg your Majesty to accept my resignation," said Hind-aburg at the start of the conference, because I have to say things which, as a Prus
I think it was at this point that the morning conference at the Villa Neu- baies brake off. Colonel Heye, of the
William II's answer was invariably the came. As being the most dramatic and best established version sian officer, I cannot say to my General Staff, who worked from the
Mr. Justice McCandie: Why was
I quote that given to Herr Drews as King." it Because shortly after my mar recurded by Gen. von der Schulenberg, "We will see first," replied the riage I guaranteed £1.500 at her whore memorandam was the basis Kaiser. bankers, and I was called opon to for my Sps inquiries.
pay up. That money was spent in
That was my first experience.
Earl Cathcart said that bis net
capital.”
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Groner then acted as principal spokesman for the Kaiser Must Go party.
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**What!"* shouted the Kaizer, ten days. She came to me at thehen Drews had discharged his un
pleasant mission. "Whaf! You, an end of the ten days for more money.official and Pra-sian rubject who he declared.
"The cry is in a desperate state," has sworn fidelity to his Sovereign The Kaizer did not know that the prevent binis If from becoming liable income then, after deduction of this one to me to support such disaffected military was threatening Kaiser's war residence. It was a very a thing? Do you know what chaos to march from Verviers on Spand ordinary country house, approached must take steps to prevent it. It income tax and super-tax,
it would cause?" would not do if b-only grumbled.
considerably less than £4000 a year
bambard his headquarters, nor that by a drive through an avenue of very The rent of the house was £300, and family renounced the succession," and purposer, deserted him. Every of red brick and stone.
"Sapposing I did abdicate, and my the garrison of Spa had, to all intents immature trees abutting on to a porch Mr. Ja tice McCardie: What are the legal steps for a bubard to take rates and taxas $255. He had s to prevent the w fe from peding too butler and 7 or 8 maids. The earl proceeded the Kaiser, it would bring thing that occurred during this. A sharp tuzu to the left, past the about the downfall of all the dynasties dramatic council would indicate that vestiaire, then through the kitchen- added, "Of course, I was living on in Germany. The army would be William II had too readily allowed already underground-and you drop-
without a head. The front would himself to be lalled into a feeling of ped down half-dozen steps to an Laundry has been bought by the to accept the command of the Mr. Morria: Did bills come in to melt away and drift back towards the security.
The Shanghai Sanitary Steam husband that she shall not pedge his you for housekeeping expenses Rhine. The defeatiets would join
enormous iron door. It the Shanghai Hotels Ltd, in which the credit or indulge in extravagance he Yes. If I expostulated she said, ranks; they would burn, massacre, to say
Groner had only a few more words entrance to the Kaiser's dug-out. Hongkong Hotel has a controlling can warn the world that he will no" Well, do it yourself then." "It was and pillage, and the enemy would
The door weighed a ton; it had-coms interest. "We can no longer rely on the from Eesen, and had been brought longer be responsible for debta in not a job I cared about," added Eari help them.
army. With the enemy still on the from 8ps to the villa on a light rail-At an eqtraordinary general carred by his wife. Earl Cathcart Cathcart.
"I won't think of abdicating. The offensive in front of us, we cannot way, which carried the cement to meeting of the Shanghai Sanitary advertised to that effect in the She says she went out taking her King of Pracais cannct turn unfaith tom our faces towards Berlin. By build the rest of the dag-out; and, Laundry Co., Ltd, at Shanghai newspapers, Fut, unfortunately for place in society as your wife. Did ful to Germany, especially at this the very act of attempting to crash although swang on hinges, took the last week, the sale was mentioned,
ies Gray, Ltd, only took that step she go out with you !--Not often.
hour. I have taken an oath, and I the insurrection we should create civil united forces of the officer who 400am. The laundry has been closed down a month air they had given credit. Did you entertain at Pont-street? will keep it."
No. I could hardly afford to.
war in Germany, The opinion panied me and myself, to open. and at the meeting the Chairman) ~ On November 5 and 6 Groner was of Field-Mahal von Hindenburg In-ide was a white cement cellar, said that to an appeal to sharehol Mr. Justice Mofardie: What was in Berlin and formed the opinion that sud my own, which is backed by all wired by trisphènes and eletric ders to subscribe further capital the amount of your wife's debts in the Kaiser's abdication could be as the generis of divisions, is that the light, hat only one burner had been only ten responded, applying for Mis. Dura Bowman; bead the summer of last year 3-At the longer deferred, and by the 8th we country can only be saved by the anted because, as a matter of faci, 106 additimal shares. He continued: Wazan, said one of the gowns selected beginning of July I think it was a find that von. Hindenburg had gone immediate - abdication by Lady Cathcart was for a Court little less than £4,000. Some of the over to the Kaiser Must Go" party,Majesty."
of your the Kaiser had never been driven to Whilst we have been unable to find i debts, said Earl Cathcart, were indeed. became a very powerful lover
these depths. Only once had British sufficient financial support to reopen Mr. Justice McCardie read the list money lenders' debts and some were to wrest & reluctant and partial moment he reached Spa, was furious their mission was inquisitive rather on January 27, 1922, we are
Count Schulenberg, who from the seroplanes flown over Spa, and then the laundry, which closed down of gown: Gown in black gen getre; traders debta. Later Earl Catheart abdication from William II.
able & Mon. at the attitude of Hindenburg, and than destructive evening gown in blue grovette; said Contes Cathcart went away
Now to report that we have read t heard from Plessen and Marschall gwn in blue gorgette with braid; with the Earl of Craven and he, Earl
secured a firm offer to purchase wa what was in the air, told the Kaiser The others were in blue gaberdice, Cathcart, divorced her in February
different story. black crepe with sequ'aa, blac's net last. with water lity, black crepe de rhine, At the conclusion of couns the German Conservative Party, seties of the Crown Prince," he said. Your Majesty can rely on the and a gown in black a tio and lace.
arguments Mr Justice McCardie said: ting forth the circumstances of the "My advice is: Don't warrender br. Hib ry (to Alies Bowman): IT am not going to give judgment Kaiser's abdication were of assistance to violence; don't abdicats; don't there anything unusual in a person now became I think the time has to me in reconstmeting his la t bouts engage in civil war; but re-establish The Coon ess Cath art selecting come shen the burdens of husbands as monarch and war-lord.
and the rights of shopkeeper should
order in certain selected districts. Still, I experienced considerable The army will be with your Majesty bdefinitely stated. I shall courider difficulty in getting the rations in in executing such a program." my judguisat ned state the law to the oidents of the historia day of Novem bost of my ability with the utmost ber 9 in their order of time and place. it did nothing else it put off the evil
The Kaiser jumped at this idee
Intel zum peopbat Spa why, tum ham,
reply to his lordstep, Mr.Hey sid that th coa tess is in South
Alrica.
ball.
gowas in an Liternoon?-None Lel-
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· Mr. Justice McCardic: Up to what nowaber do they go-bonemes to 10 ur i
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