KAISER LOSES LAWSUIT

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 23, 26 January 1918, Page 10

KAISER LOSES LAWSUIT

COUNSEL ALLEGES BRUTALITY.

The speck] tribunal, composed of Pruseiam judges, which tries every lawsuit wherein any member of the Houeo of Hohenzollem is involved, concluded in. October the hewing of a case in which tho Kaiser figures cm one sido and his cousin, Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia, and the. latter'a son, Frederick Leopold, jun., ou the other. The central figurf in the case is Prince Frederick Leopold, who was born on 27th August, 1895. Prince Frederick is a. nephew of tho German Empress, his mother, Louise Sophie, being her sister. Tho Prince, exempted from military service owing to a, weak heart, lived at Munich, where ho worked as a painter. He received an annual allowance of 30,000. marks from tho Kaiser and 60,000 marks from his father. In ono year ho contracted dobte exceeding 1,000,000 marks. The Kaieer, exercising his authority as the head of tho House of Hohcnzollern, decreed that the Prince be placed under control, and appointed Col. yon Hoyden us his guardian. He also ordered the Prince to leave Munich and to reside at Oaesel. The Prince appealed to the special tribunal to relieve him of control by his military guardian and to Tcstore to him complete liberty. ■ >• . A piquant feature of the'trial is that the advocate representing the Prince is Herr Heine, a Socialist member of the Reichstag. Pleading his client's case, Herr Heine said that tho Kaiser had treated him brutally. Col. Hoyden, he alleged, behaved lite a bully. The Prince was preparing for marriage with tho Princess of Schwa.rzburg when he was dragged away from Munich and interned at Cassol. The Kaiser took this measure against the will of his client'? parents, who considered his conduct perfectly correct. General Hoyden bad aJI tho furniture, art collection, and other contents of the house at Munioh, which the Prince had prepared foi his bride, sold by auction. -. The tribunal decided to postpone this pa.rt of the caso for a fortnight, but delivered judgment on a parallel suit brought by the guardian of the. Princa against his father, Frederiok Leopold, eon. When the son «as placed under tho control of the military guardian, tho Kaiser ordered the father to pay tho annual allowanco of 60,000 marks iot to the son but to his military guardian. Frederick Leopold tho elder disobeyed this order, and paid the allowance to his wife, who ha-nded it on to the eon whenever he needed money. The_ tribunal gave judgment against tho Kaiser, and decided that Frederick Leopold tho elder was entitled to pay the allowanco direct to his son.—Wireloss Prose.