EX-KAISER'S WEALTH
AND NOT A PENNY IN INCOME TAX! BERLIN, August 19. German princes are hammering at the door of the pensions office. The ex Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria has for a general’s pension; Prince Oscar of Prussia has applied for a brigade commander’s pension and has also demanded the salary due to him for the last quarter of 1918. The salary has been sent to him, :uldressed Mr Oscar von Hohenzollern, formerly Prince of Prussia, but the question of both his and Prince Rupprecht’s pension is under ion. George, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen has applied for an inspector-general’s pension and pointed out that as he pays the taxes of the Republic it should give him a tension. The wealthiest of all the former princes of Germany is th? ex Kaiser. His wealth is indeed so great that the Prussian Ministry of Finance, which is charged with th? task of making a financial adjustment lietwocn the Hohenzt Herns and Prussia, is unable to estimate the value of it all. In Berlin and the neighbourhood hr claimed 53 palaces, mansions, and estates. He has property all over Germany and valuable mortgages on many buildings in Berlin. He does not. pay Id. income tax. The more extreme Socialists declare that the State should confiscate the property
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Southland Times, Issue 19658, 7 October 1922, Page 5
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