A HOHENZOLLERN QUARREL

Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1917, Page 2

A HOHENZOLLERN QUARREL

HOW THE KAISER CONTROLS HIS RELATIONS. Berne, October 5. A special tribunal composed of Prussian judges which tries every lawsuit wherein any member of the House of Hohemsollern is involved has just concluded the hearing of a ease in which the Kaiser figures on one side and his cousin Prince Frederick; Leopold of Prussia, and the latter's son, Prince Frederick Leopold, junior, on the other. Prince Frederick Leopold, who was born on August 27, 1895, is a nephew of the German Empress. The prince was exempted from military service owing to a weak heart, and lived at Munich where he worked as a painter. He received an annual allowance of 30,000 marks from the Kaiser and 60,000 marks from his father. In one year he contracted debts exceeding 1,000,000 marks. The Kaiser, exercising his authority as the head of the House of Hohenzoliern, decreed that the prince be placed under control and appointed Col. von Heyden as his guardian. I He also ordered the prince to leave Mun'ich and to reside at Cassel. The prince .appealed to the special tribunal to relieve him of control by his, military guardian and to restore to him, complete liberty. The advocate representing the Prince is Herr Heine, a Socialist member of the Reichstag. Pleading 'his client's case Herr Heine said that the Kaiser had treated him brutajly. Colonel Heyden, he alleged, behaved like a bully. " The Prince was preparing for marriage with the Princess of Sclnvarzburg, when he was dragged away from Munich and interned at Cassel. The Kaiser took this measure against ihe will of his client's parents, who considered his conduct perfectly correct. Colonel Heyden had all the furniture, art collection, and other contents of the house at Munich, which the Prince bad prepared for his bride, sold by auction.

The tribunal decided to postpone this part of the case for a fortnight, but delivered judgment on a parallel suit brought by the guardian of the Prince against hi? father, Frederick Leopold, senior. When the son was placed under the control the military guardian the Kaiser ordered the fathor to pay the nnwial allowance of sixty thousand marks not to the son hut to his military guardian. Frederick Leopold, the elder, disoheyed this order, and paid the allowance to his wife, who handed it on to the son whenever he needed money. The tribunal gave judgment against the Kaiser, and decided that Frederick Leopold, tho elder, was entitled to pay the allowance direct to his son,—Wireless Press. Amsterdam, October 5. The Tageblatt protests against, the "scandalous law suit'' between the Kaiser and Prince Frederick Leopold. The paper wonders whether it was necessary at the (present time to cause such a scandal and show the world the differences existing between two members of the Imporial Family. Was it necessary to have the Prince's trunks and wardrobe opened pub lid v when ladies' dresses were discovered, which it was finally found had been purchased for the Prince's mother and sister. Was it necessary to make public during the war the letter ! written by the Kaiser to his brother-in-I law?— Exchange.