HOHENLOHE'S MEMOIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13307, 13 October 1906, Page 5

HOHENLOHE'S MEMOIRS.

THE BISMARCK REVELATIONS. KING EDWARD INVOLVED. I WHAT HERBERT BISMARCK SAID TO HIM. By Telegraph.—Pr«« Association.— Copyright. (Received October 12, 9.37 p.m.) London October 12, The late Prince Hohenlohe's memoirs have created an indescribable sensation on the Continent, and their publication is considered to have been an astonishing indiscretion. Hohenlohe relates that when he visited the Empress Augusta in 1888 she told him Herbert Bismarck had had the impudence to tell the Prince of Wales (now King Edward) that the Emperor was unable to talk, and was really incapable of ruling. The Prince of Wales had told her that if he had not attached importance to good relations with Germany he would have thrown Herbert Bismarck out of the room. Later the Prince of Wales spoke guardedly, to Prince Hohenlohe, and expressed disgust at the rudeness of both Prince Bismarck and his son- Herbert. The statements in the above cablegram arc certainlv sensational. The Kaiser succeeded to the throne of Germany in 1888, and Bismarck retired from the office, of Chancellor two years later. The Empress of Germany is popularly known as the Empress Augusta, although in the records .she is usually called Victoria, her second Christian name. In the eighties Herbert Bismarck was a frequent visitor to England.