GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1927, Page 2

GERMAN NEWS.

GERMAN PRINCESS MARRIES

(Australia & N.Z. Cable AssociatLa.)

BERLIN, Nov. 19.

The ceremony of Princess \ ictoria s marriage was quiet. The pair and witnesses drove to Boon Town Hall in an unostentatious private car in the evening. The Princess’s household was unaware of the wedding and no relatives were present. The Princess was dressed in grey, with a rope of pearls. She carried no flowers.

The news spread quickly and nearly a thousand gathered outside the Town Hall. There will be a religious ceremony on Monday according to tbe Greek Catholic rites. The venue is unknown.

It is believed the couple will leave after on a lengthy tour in tbe hope of forgetting tbe annoyances and insults which had taken every form, from tbe most disgraceful annoyance and messages to actual threats. Tt is stated the Princess will he known in the future as Victoria Yon Zoubkoff. Tho bridegroom is not a baron, but the prefix Von is accepted as the nearest equivalent to the Russian word- meaning nobleman.

PRINCESS VICTORIA

A STRANGE CONTRAST

LONDON, Nov. 20

A strange comparison with her previous marriage is made hv the Daily Chronicle’s Bonn correspondent. In reference to Princess Victoria’s wedding, In says: “Watcnn.g the lonely ex-Kaiser’s sister slip into the registry office, one wondered whether tier mind had reverted for a moment to the amazingly contrasted circumstances of her previous wedding 37 years ago, when a young and beautiful bride, she married Prince Schaumburg Lippi*. Berlin was then helhiggcd, ami she was surrounded by tbe pomp of Prussia. Hundreds of thousands of people cheered as the young Princess drove throng the streets of the capital. the cent.e of glittering representatives of a mighty army; while its Kings and ruling primes of independent States were present. To-day, not a single member oS' the dynasty, or people was present and there was total silence as the Princess passed into the registry office, attired in a dark walking dress and noticeably pale. The bridegroom was closely wrapped in a fur-collared coat. The only guest at the luncheon at tbe Princess’s town house, was the Russian mother of the youthful bridegroom.

FORGERS CONSPIRE. BERLIN, Nov. 21

Following up arrests made in September. tho police brought to light a great conspiracy to forge Soviet notes to the extent of five million sterling. The capital which the forgers employed alone was eight thousand sterling, making the German police opine the aim of the forgers was to embarrass the Soviet Government financially. It is even alleged that capital was furnished from British sources with a secondary' purpose of assisting the Georgia anti-Soviet movement.