Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1917 — MUST WIN ALSACE [ARTICLE]

MUST WIN ALSACE

Correspondent of Berlin Newspaper Says Emperor Made Statement While on Way to Balkans. London, Oct. 19. —The correspondent of the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger, who was permitted to travel on the train which took Emperor William to the Balkans and to lunch in the restaurant car with the emperor, says a dispatch to the Daily Chronicle from Amsterdam, sends the following to his newspaper: “His majesty sat down to the table with the observation that he had just read Professor Painleve’s first speech as French premier. “ ‘So M. Painleve wants Alsace-Lor-raine, does he?’ exclaimed the emperor. ‘Good; but he must come and take it.’ “The emperor then treated the company to a eulogy of the late King Carl and Queen Elizabeth of Roumanla, whose good work, he said, ‘has been undone In a few inonths by the hunger for gold and power of certain agitators.’ 1 -‘'At the conclusion of the lunch, vrtiieh consisted of meat and fish courses and bread and cheese, about the same as might be served in a middle-class household, the kaiser said: ‘lt is unworthy for any German to live well when even the best people go without things. What we have of foodstuffs is common property which by just division is sufficient to keep us alive for an unlimited time and which permits us to await final victory with calm. Who takes more than his share sins against those who serve the fatherland.’ ”