Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1915 — HOW THE KAISER APPEARS [ARTICLE]

HOW THE KAISER APPEARS

Correspondent Writes Pen Picture of Emperor as He Saw Him at Front. Berlin. — A. pen picture of the kaiser appears in the Kreuz-Zeitung from its war correspondent with the German troops in Poland, who says: “The kaiser appeared with General Mackensen, and passed along in front of the officers and troops. I had not seen him since the time when at the beginning of the war he spoke to the crowd from the balcony of the castle in Berlin. “For one moment I had formed the impression that he had become terribly gray in the campaign. That, however, was an error, which arose from the fact that his head protector, which he was wearing owing to the extremely cold weather, was gray. “The supreme war lord appears, on the contrary, extraordinarily fresh and elastic, even though the seriousness of these last months has left marks on his features, and a certain bitterness which formerly was not present comes into his voice when he speaks. “When I saw him I could not help thinking of the kaiser parade in 1895 on the Spandau drill ground. How brilliant he then looked, how forceful, how confident in the future and victory!” 1