PRINCE OF GERMANY

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1926, Page 3

PRINCE OF GERMANY

FED DOGS ON VEAL. WHILE PEOPLE STARVED. LONDON, Jan. 11. Demonstratipns and placards reading, "Not a Pfennig for Princes! have throughout Germany accompanied tho appeal for plebiscite as to whether 20 Royal princes shall be awarded estates valued at millions of pounds to which tho revolution cancolled their titles, says the Berlin correspondent of tho Daily Mail. The courts have already decided in favour of several claimants. Dr. Lehmunn, writing in tho newspapers, revdals that during the war, when food was terribly short, Prince Leopold, tho former Kaiser’s cousin, who has already been awarded four estates valued at several millions, fed 80 dogs on meat, giving liis favourites veal cutlets.

Ho' treated tho servants abominably. One was compelled to drink three bottles of champagne in succession, tho Prince saying, “You’re drinking for my pleasure.’ Another servant was forced to drink a liorriblo cocktail of bitters, pepper, port and sherry, while the Prince and Princess roared at tho poor wretch’s grimaces. Another was compelled to traverse the room on all fours, making a noise like a dog and to eat from a plate on tho floor.