WAR TURNING KAISER INTO RAVING MANIAC
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Falls Into Paroxysm of Rage at Mention of America.
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Special to The Washington Post
New York July 10—The booming of allied cannon rocking his tottering throne is making of the Emperor of Germany a raving maniac. In his own household they are calling him "the crazy emperor."
Those things were told today by Mrs. Lewis Johnstone of Montreal, Canada who said that in London three weeks ago, she talked with a German who until two months ago was closely associated with the working staff of the kaiser's palace.
"He told me" she said, "that men and women who had been in the kaiser's household for years were being cuffed about like dogs and were made to eat crumbs and weeds and dry bread by the kaiser.
"The name of America or any American is forbidden within the hearing of the kaiser, he told me, and a few weeks after the United States entered the war, when a close military confidant suggested that the United States seemed to be preparing to defy Germany's submarines and send her troops across the ocean, the speaker was struck in the face with the kaiser's only normal fist and sent reeling across the floor.
" 'Get out, you cowardly dog,' he said the kaiser was quoted by one of the attendants as having said. 'You talk rotten nonsense; the Americans will come, eh? To hell with the Americans,' whereupon he fell upon his knees, cursing the United States."
The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.) - Thursday, July 11, 1918
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