The Diary of Dorothy Priest, December 10th 1914

The latest is that the Kaiser died at 4 O’clock today.  It is his time to die now as the Emperor of Austria died at the beginning of the war, and the Kronprinz was buried a few months ago.

As they are both living now I suppose the Kaiser will do something in a day or two to prove that he is alive.  But more authentic reports say he is ill, violent to those around him etc, so I suppose he does not enjoy the most perfect health at the present moment.  Now for another prophecy of Daddy’s!  Peace is to be signed (at Berlin, I think) on April 27^th, 1915.  We are revenged for the Monmouth and Good Hope, for three German cruisers have been sunk in the South Atlantic, the other side of S. America.  The Good Hope was lost in the Pacific in about the same latitude.  The American papers have a full account of the loss of HMS Audacious of which we have not heard a word.  What a lot of things will come out after the end of the war! I wonder what is the matter with the Kaiser?

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