WAR TEARS BIG GAPS IN GERMAN NOBILITY'S RANKS.
AMSTERDAM; May 15. The gaps torn m the r^nks of the German nobility by the war are emphasised m the current issue of the German Adelsblatt, a periodical devoted to genealogical research. It enumerates among the killed 270 counts, of whom seven belonged to the house of Dohna, and seven others to the house of Finck von Finckenstedn, and 633 barons, of whom thirteen wej» of the house of Wagenheim. In addition to the foregoing, the old nobility, as it is known, has lost 543 members, while what is classed as the later nobility has suffered 836 losses, the largest being those of the family of von Wedel, twenty-two members, and von Arnim, twenty one.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14635, 19 June 1918, Page 6
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