GEORGE OF SERVIA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13928, 6 April 1909, Page 2

GEORGE OF SERVIA.

A VIOLENT PRINCE;.

The Crown Prince of Servia, wjip has. dramatically, not to say melodramatically, renounced all his rights iib , th« succession, is a violent and impulsive young man. Iho ground of his present discontent is tho unworthy accusation made by some people that he kicked dne of his grooms to death. An earlier story concerning him alleged that he ■ amused himself by trying to shoot a cigarette out of a soldier's inbuth. When he missed the cigarette and hit the soldier another soldier had to. play the son to Prince George's William Tell, but as the sport threatened to decimate the palace guard .it haa to be | interrupted. A less sensational story accused him of insulting and assaulting a venerable old monk whose guest he was. His friends say that Prince George's offences are nothing worse than the' pranks of a high-spirited lad in his cups. His enemies say that he is a drunken degenerate or a violent madman. He has certainly contrived' to offend every high" official with whom he has come- in contact. One dark night Major Dunjitch, Commandant of the Life Guards, ' allowed" "the Crown Prince's carriage ta pass without saluting it. Prince George stopped the car^ rjiage and bellowed <r a; question at the major. An explanation was offer- d. y March ■ „a &f * &>&;s and don't bark!'* Was the Prince's elegant rejoinder. Major Dunjitch* expostulated, but sue- , ceeded only, in proyoking the Prince to hurl at him, a volley of the coarsest Prince George of course comes / of a family with an abnormal history. |lis great-grandfather was murderel and his" grandfather was exiled from 1 Servia. His father gained the throne by the assassination of King Alexander. Of course the supporters of the Obrenovitch dynasty can find nothing good to

.■ — I : -,4 : - ! T say "of ~ the ' Crown "Prince, who v is Va KarageorgevitehjCand he certainly provides them with plenty of material for evil, stories. Prince George $s on|y twenty-one years of age. 'His younger brother, Alexander, has not distinguished himself so far by t either Viftue efr 'vice, 'and if the«:Teport that he fa &f milq disposition ~3s ..correct it is easy to understand that he would have ao N desfae to succeed to Servians bloody throne. — Lytteltpn Times.

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