GERMAN LAW

Evening Star, Issue 19327, 13 August 1926, Page 12

GERMAN LAW

THE KAISER’S ENGLISH COUNSEL A dramatic scene took place in the Templg tlio other day, when Dr Schuster, the ex-Kaiser’s confidential adviser, arrived post haste in a large car from Croydon Aerodrome, came into the chambers of Mr Ronald Vaughan Williams,'K.C., the British member of the Anglo-German Mixed Arbitral Tribunal, ,and planked down on the table a sheaf of- papers and a canvas bag, says Mr London, in the ‘ Daily Graphic,’

“ What’s this?” inquired the lawyer. “ Case to advise on on behalf of rhy Imperial master,” was the reply. “ You will find 100 sovereigns and *IOO shillings' in. the bag.” ■ Then'Mr Vaughan Williams remembered. He has been Wilhelm’s legal adviser in Britain for many years, and his fee has always been the same lOOgs. Not only so, but the ex-Kaiser prelerred his advice on German law to that of the best German lawyers. In this case there was special urgency, so Dr Schuster flew across from Holland and took counsel’s fee with him. I was told that the point at issue concerns one of the large estates for which the exile of Doom (like all the other German Royalties) is trying to get compensation from “Patient Michael,” otherwise the German, people—now not quite :jp patient.