CROWN PRINCE'S DINNER.

Northern Advocate, 28 November 1914, Page 5

CROWN PRINCE'S DINNER.

'A despatch.sent.by Mr C. F. BerteKi to the "New York American" gives details, hitherto unpublished, of a great feast whirm was pi'eparpd for the German Crown Prince at Sezanne, and which was abruptly stopi.acl by „„ explosive shell. /According to Mr 3ertelli, the German plan was to \ake. possession of Sezanne, an important railway junction, > and the key to the Seine vaUey.' All was going so well oh September ■ G that, everybody was l ill. fine fettle, and it was decided, on the ■occupation of Suzanne to give an elaborate dinner to the Crown Prince 'and 'his. gtheiais in the Chateau de Moudemeht, owned by Preside n,t Jacobs, of the Stock Brokers' Association in Paris. v It was the Raiser's dearest wi_h. to have the Crown Prince make a t.ium-j ph_i ontij into Pans, thus piepa ing a guiious lecoid roi his sou's niture leigu. in anticipation of tm_ tniua-i phal ewn, now considered assured, a wonderful dinner, says Mr Bertelh was piep £ iea in the whilp paneHed h"'ngroom of the beautitu. seventeenth centut> stiuctitie. The dinner and the j ca o.ise wh eh followed Ht _d l n nto ! the night Rpvplm w<-s < t 11-_ _\, when a shell burst in the pint \ of tlie chatpau Tho Cio\,n Prnre . n_l his geneials weie _oon in s ll l'l'e, and} too T . Un a] o i+, on m . or 1 \ to ' re ft '=t " t _c attack made .bj the Allies, who weie finalh biiccessful, after | on a _ 1 t i he en . ,i u t vi c v „ _c ot , wli nd- j. bo i _iJ<_ \, jre I killed "" ~ \j r> c _s. t.( A place in the ea.il. hours ol the very day on wh in lii -.'_ ,Cii hci p. nne_ to ra„ k. .„ £ i 3cU' l iL. eat-} in.j Pans, and was the prelude to other everses m v ii ;i autiti Geini„u luu uions we o vViped oai. rue lawns ot \__n___i _nt plougued b\ shell fne, the ancient trees mowed down, the ii ': h 1 , "nl f _ c"i_,teau left a „i iu.ii_. In tie ca_tle park alone there were th-ee thous.nd an f i Inme' l .Tho jhate au's aged keeper, who stuck to his during the entne conflict, told Mi " l telli U, it 3000 b .. es rt champag le weie bon "lit up fo v c great _mnei, ana it was m the midst ot this oigy of champagne that a peripctl.v aimed shell of the tamou_ trench '73" came thiough the outer Avail, bin sting finallj in the pantiy a'jOxning the Jin [d 'ting loom Othei shells followed, until the place became a regulai inferno