Further details are now at hand of the Kaiser's narrow escape from
death from bombs thrown by an airman attached to the allied army
occupying the line from Nieuport to Ypres for five days. The Emperor
was present at the operations on that front, and it was because
of his presence that the enemy made such persistent and vigorous
attacks on the Allies, regardless of the enormous sacrifice of life.
The Kaiser, with some of his aides, arrived by motor car at a
tavern at Thielt about 5 p. m. Apartments had been reserved for the
Emperor. Dinner was ready and his personal baggage had already been
deposited in the bedroom prepared for him. He was in a hurry and did
not dress for dinner, but immediately sat down to dine.
After the meal, instead of going to his room, he hurriedly left
the tavern with two of his aides. He motored to the other end of
the town, where fresh rooms were engaged. Twenty minutes after the
Kaiser left the first tavern six bombs fell upon the building and
the room where his baggage lay was destroyed. Two of his aides, who
had remained in the tavern, were killed and the motor car in the
yard wrecked.