BERLIN SCANDAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 27, 26 October 1907, Page 5

BERLIN SCANDAL.

" RING " ROUKD THE KAISER.

CHARGES BROUGHT TO BREAK IT. . THE EULENBURG CLIQUE. BY TEr,EGRAni—riIESS ASSOCIATION—COrYBIGHT. (Rec. Oct. 25, 10.22 p.m.) Berlin, October 25. An action for,libel, brought by General Count Kuno Von Moltke against Hcrr Maximilian Harden, editor of tho newspaper "Zukunft," is acusing a tremendous sensation' in Berlin, Tho' "Zukunft" published extraordinary allegations impugning the morality of Count Moltke, Prince Philip Eulcnburg, and other high court officials, whom Herr Harden also accused of forming a "ring of mystics" around the Kaiser for political purposes, arid exorcising a baneful iiiiluenco on the' Kaiser, only allowing him to hear wlyit suited them. ' Moltko's divorced wife gave startling ovidonco. v Herr Harden declared that he wroto the article /solely to do the Empire a political sorvico, and to destroy tho clique or ring. His counsel stated that Herr Harden did not accuse Count Moltke of the unnameable offences'which the articles had been interpreted to suggost, "but," added counsel, "I say that plaintiff is the only member of tho circle to whom the allegation does not apply. 1 have a witness who can proTe it."

Herr Harden asked tho Court to hear witnesses to provo that plaintiff was aware of his associates' conduct.

It was decided to admit this ovidcnco, bu the general public was oxcludrd.

According. to stories from Berliu, Prince Philip Hnlcnbiirff was the centre, and Count Kuno von Moltke was a prominent figure, in the camarilla (otherwise ring or clique) whose members had gi'cat private influence, with tho Kaiser, and "worked" by subterranean means many jjromotions and downfalls. It is ,said that Prince Eulenburg could havo been Chancellor, but put Prince von liidow inio that position, preferring, as ho ■ phrased it, to be "king-inafcer rather than king." Prince :Eulenberg secured tho appointment of Count Kuno von. Moltko. as Military Governor .of Berlin. ' ' Itcrr Harden's ■ opportunity; came partly •through-'Count Kuno von Moltko's. ivifo divorcing him iii scandalous circumstances. It is saitl that the Crown Prince of Germany laid the. Zukunft articles before the Kaiser; causing the downfall of the camarilla, which was now seeking to overthrow Prince Bulow. Bismarck is reported to have termed) Eulenburg " a sort of Prussian Cagliostro, with eyes that can spoil my breakfast at any time..... Ho has occupied himself -itli all kinds of mysticism and occultism .nore than politics."