GERMAN CROWN PRINCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 20 December 1913, Page 12

GERMAN CROWN PRINCE.

Hot water seems to be the favorite element of the German Crown Prince whose differences with his august tather are reported from time to time m the papers. A personal sketch of the Prince published in the Daily Mail dwells on the fact that the Prince and his father are not on the best of terms They are too much alike in disposition and temperament," -explains this writer, "to be close.friends. The same traits appear in both, with only this difference, that the younger is physically energetic; while the elder 'is mentally active. The one complains of the irksomeness of being the son of a clever father; the other, finding a uoo-impulsive son a thorn in the fiesh is full of misgivings, and is doing hie best to put an old head. ,on young shoulders. This led to friction and disobedience." Even before his schooling days began the Prince a]>pears to have been a rebel. He used to steal away from his governess, and amuse himself walking out of and in si the palace gates, enjoying the fun of burning., out the guard each time until the beating of drums brought his guariiaiis after him. As a student at I3«j;ui he was opposed to the University tradition of much, beer-drinking. He a:«z;iic-(.l that this A-as not good for a man. It jvas ftmued in return, that beer '• a tradition, and what was"-more. :• ' ompulrsory institution. The Prince t}- v threatened to leave the corps, and ir, was only his position which averted * his serious result. At one time.the i =ol of the nation, the Crown Prince has contracted a fatal habit of .falling foiil of one class after another. Tv Socialist Party he has permanently alienated, and his anti-English ebullitkv.s and the

recent attack on his - brother-in-law have thrown him into the:camn of the Pan-German party. Not without rea r son, the moderate eection of public opinion, and i those who oppose the views of the war party, dread the time

when he will succeed to the throne. As a sportsman, whether at hunting, polo, tennis, yachting; ice-hockey; aviation, or motoring, he has; shown himself a thorough - enthusiast. t When the Prince's parents tabooed horse-racing as a sport beneath the dignity of the Royal family, (ihe rebel again asserted himself; and-not, long ago it leaked out that 'he rode• one of jiis horses <at Hoppegarten, ', in spite Aof jrepeated warnings. Aa*. a result; h&i §a^ cbnfinieid: at • h»;palace as a puniehmeht. These periods" of- 'farrest" are: eaidXto be about the only time whenthe Prince may be relief' 'upon not: to be petting into fresh troublel ;