EX-KAISER’S IDOL DIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19240, 29 November 1930, Page 17 (Supplement)

EX-KAISER’S IDOL DIES .

Prince Leopold, Who Captured Warsaw . T3RINCE LEOPOLD of Bavaria, fav* A ourite son-in-law of the Emperor Francis • Joseph, Commander of the German Army on the Eastern Front, the man who captured Warsaw and eventually arranged the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty with the Russians in 1917, died suddenly alone and unmoumed in Munich on September 29, at the age of se ve nty-f our. Prince Leopold was a brother of the former King Ludwig 111. of Bavaria. He was married to Princess Isabella of Austria, a daughter of the Emperor Francis Joseph, and was an uncle of the notorious Crown Prince Uttrecht. Leopold’s capture and sacking of Warsaw on August 15, 1915, sent Germany delirious with joy. Telegraph offices throughout the country were besieged by people sending congratulatory telegrams to the Kaiser and Hind^nburg. The prince, who became the Kaiser’s idol, went from victory to victory, and early in 1917 he crowned his successes , with the capture of Riga. Champagne flowed freely when he signed the Brest-Litovsk treaty, and a five-course lunch was given to all troops in the area. Then came the German revolution and anti-climax. Prince Leopold’s palace in Munich was stormed and looted, and he fled with his family to the Tyrol. In 1919, while in exile in Switzerland, he was arrested on a charge of being concerned in the murder of Kurt Eisner and thrown into gaol. He was released, and since then had been living the life of a hermit in Munich.