Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1920 — BILL NERVOUS; HAS HIS GUARD INCREASED [ARTICLE]

BILL NERVOUS; HAS HIS GUARD INCREASED

Amerongen, March 17.—Re-in-forcement of the Dutch guard at von Bentinck castle, which since the middle ages has been protected by moats and drawbridges, has made the former German emperor’s refuge a veritable prison fortress, capable of defense even ip the unexpected event of an attack by raiders desiring to free the exile. The castle is situated in a big square. The four sides are. posted, while two of them have additional walls. The latter two sides are on the public road, and on the other two sides which have no walls, are private paths belonging to the von Bentincks. Constables and military police patrol the roads with loaded rifles, night and day. To the right of the main entrance is a small building in which rest reinforcements. Here sentries are on guard. Behind this main gateway, a distance of 130 yards, is another gate, barring the inner driveway to the drawbridge. More sentries are stationed here. Still further on where the road bends, at yet another gate, there is also a guard. Then turning to the right, a driveway leads to the terrace on which the castle stands. Police patrol this terrace. At the rear of the castle there is a garden, then a moat and then a private pathway on the dike and this is constantly patrolled. Beyond the dike is a meadowland crossed by ditches and hedges and in the meadow are police who are particularly warned to, guard against the landing of airplanes there. Only the Bentinck family and the former emperor’s few servants have permission to enter the castle. J So strict has the control over the former monarch become that J. B. Kan, general secretary of the Dutch government, who is charged with guarding tihe Hohenzollerns and is personally known to most of the sentries, had to produce a pass before being admitted Monday afternoon. • •