Gallant "Rat Face"

Revealed last week by L'Illustration, famed Parisian review, was a hitherto suppressed and most significant fact: on New Year's Day, 1915, His Royal & Imperial Highness, Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Germany and of Prussia, sent a German captain and buglers, bearing a flag of truce, across "no man's land" to the headquarters of French General Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail.

Soon the astounded General was reading this gallant message:

"I wish to my chivalrous adversary a Happy New Year.

Wilhelm. Crown Prince."

Since Allied propagandists were busy at the time, picturing H. R. & I. H. as a debauched "Rat Face," the story of his New Year's card has been 13 years in coming to light.