A HOHENZOLLERN QUARREL

Evening Star, Issue 16627, 9 January 1918, Page 8

A HOHENZOLLERN QUARREL

t HOW THE KAISER CONTROLS HIS " ' 1 RELATIONS. c The special tribunal composed of Prue--1 sian Judges which tries every lawsuit r wherein any member of the House of j Hohenzollern is involved has just con--1 eluded the hearing of a case in which the 5 Kaiser' figures on one side and his cousin ? Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia, and 1 the latter's son, Prince Frederick Leopold, r junior, on the other (says a Berne message r to the ' Sunday Observer'). > Prince Frederick Leopold, who was born on August 27, 1895, is a nephew of the » German Empress. The prince was os- " empted from military service owing to a • weak heart, and lived at Munich, where he 1 worked as a painter. Ho received an onr nual allowance of 30,000 marks from the. 3 Kaiser and 60,000 marks from his father. •■ In one year he contracted debts exceeding s 1,000,000 marks. The Kaiser, exercising a his authority as the bead of the House of • Hohenzollern, decreed that the prince be i placed under control-, and appointed Col. 1 Von Heyden as his guardian. Ho also e ordered the prince to leave Munich and a to reside at OasseL The prince appealed e to the special tribunal to relieve him of i- control by his military guardian and. to re- !- store to aim complete liberty, e The advocate representing the prince is 0 Herr Heine; a Socialist member of the r Reichstag. Pleading his client's .case Herr 8 , Heine said that the' Kaiser had treated him brutally. Colonel Heyden, he alleged, - behaved like a bully. The prince was pre- . paring for marriage with the Princess of e Schwaraltrarg, when he was dragged away e from Munich and interned at Cassel. Tho <- Kaiser took this measure against the will e of• his client's parents, who considered his r conduct perfectly correct. Colonel Heyden t had all the furniture, art collection, * and n other contents of the house at Munich, i. which tho prince had. prepared for his , bride, sold by auction. ■f The tribunal decided to postpone this e part of tho case for a fortnight, but de- ,- livered judgment on a parallel suit brought y by tho guardian of the prince against his v father, Frederick Leopold, senior. When !- tho son was placed under the control of f the military guardian the Kaiser ordered - the father to pay the annual allowance of 1 60,000 marks not to the son but to his nrili- :- tary guardian. Frederick Leopold, the - elder, disobeyed this order, and paid the i allowance to his wife, who handed it on r to the son whenever he needed monsv. a The tribunal gave judgment against t.iie e Kaiser, and decided that Frederick Leoo pold, the elder, was entitled to pay the >- allowance direct to his eon. The ' Tageblatt' protests against the! , " scandalous law suit " between tlie Kaiser s and Prince Frederick Leopold. The paper r wonders whether it was necessary at the ' f present time to cause such a scandal and , s show the world the differences existing be- j t tween two members of the Imperial family. Was it necessary to have the prince's \ trunks' and wardrobes opened publicly, j when ladies' dresses were discovered.' t which it was finally found had been pur- i , ; chased for the prince's mother and sister? I 0 Was it necessary to make public during the t war the letter written by the Kaiser to his j a brother-in-law,? . I