THE LATE COUNT WALDERSEE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11878, 27 April 1904, Page 7

THE LATE COUNT WALDERSEE.

The lat-a Field-Marshal Cuuut yon Waldersee was once concerned in a most dra-

matic event which uappemxl durine the Franco-German war. After the capitulation of Paris the General, as Chief of the Staff, was appoiuUd to act a.s U*«cluiftbtrugir. or special envoy, to arrange for the delicate mLsKion of demanding payment of tlie first instalment of the war indemnity. At his back Moltke was ready with Ilia" cannon to open fire at the leairt symptom of *vaeion or dtJay; but, when \Valder»eo finally emerged from the meeting with th« French plenipotentiaries with a cheque for sixty million francs in his pocket, he used*to delight to tell how ho felt a weight off his mind as he realised that no further blood need be shed, and that his Fathvriand had won the first fruits of a victoiy which had already cost it so many valuable lives. CV-:::iU*e yon Waldersce was the widowed Princess of SchleswitjHolsteiu before Ikt marriage with the Count. One of tho cek-brated I>?--8 of \ irginia, she comes of tint unmistakably huMijtpirited and withal wtiongly religious race which t-ven to this day represents all that i* le;t in Ameriti". Mie has always widded ;i powerful influence ovt r all who have <yim« in cot.:act with her. Sh* is devoted to philaiithro{)iu and religious works. Hvr charity, in which her husband took the keem-st inUnvst, top.ihtr with her t.horough Gorman sympathies, has made her universally beloved.