A REGENCY DISPUTE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8105, 7 October 1904, Page 2

A REGENCY DISPUTE.

SUCCESSION NOT RECOGNISED.

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n . BERLIN,* October 5. Owrog to the death of aunt Ernest, Regent of Lippe-DetmoW, curious complications have been created. The Kaiser declined to recogniso the assumption of the Regency by Cosunt Leopold of LippeBieaterfleld. eldest son of Count Ernest, while the State Ctovctnment supports Leopold. l

SEXSATION-MAKING ORDER.

(Received October 6, 11.30 p.m.* BERLIN, October 6. The Government of Lippe-Detnrold is confident that the Federal Comet! will not allow tho State to be coerced, and lias asked for thft appointment of an impartial tribunal to settle the question of succession.

The Kaiser's tefegmm forbidding thearmy to swear allegiance to Count Leopold has caused a sensation throughoutuarmanv.

The Berliner Tageblatt says the Kaiser'a decrees require the Chancellor's signature. Count yon Bulow either disapproves of the telegram or was not consulted, and he ought in either case to* resign. , .

T . L #« ", a pn»ci|»Kty under Prim» TNnrl Alexajjder, who succeeded in March, 1895 r and siiwe 1898 has been govetned by a Regeirt, Count Ernest, now de«|. nie Sl«b© has an are* of 469 square mite*, an* a population of 138,952. There is a> Diet of 21 members.