GERMANY

Southland Times, Issue 17468, 7 October 1913, Page 5

GERMANY

REBEL’S FORTUNE. Times—Sydney Sun -Special Cable. BERLIN, October 6. Received October 6. - 7.5 p.m. The late Ferdinand August Bebel, German Socialist leader* left sixteen thousand sterling. He bequeathed a thousand to the Socialist party. KAISER TAKES A HAND. , IN THE DISPUTE WITH THE GUELPHS. ' BERLIN, October 6. Received' October 7, 12.5 a.m. The Kaiser has returned from a five weeks’ holiday at Potsdam. He has taken personal charge of the' Guelph situation, and has sent the Duke of Hollweg to Munich to confer with the Regent of Bavaria whose mediation with the Duke of Cumberland is sought. Meanwhile, there will be no announcement in reference to the Prussian Government’s policy. Public opinion unalterably opposes Guelphs assuming charge of: Brunswick until they have explicitly renounced their claims to Hanover. The Nationalist Press threatens the Kaiser with a storm, which will reduce that of November, 1908, to the dimensions of a summer zephyr. A semiofficial communication describes Prince Ernest's attitude as bfelng exemplary, and utterly opposed to Guelph machination. It is stated that the Prince Is coming to Potsdam this week. The Dally Mail’s Berlin correspondent states that the Prussian Court is less anxious to act hastily, because through the recent disappointment of the Kaiser’s daughter, and on this account the question of succession is less acute than it otherwise would have been.