GERMAN ROYAL PEERS.

Western Star, 15 January 1915, Page 4

GERMAN ROYAL PEERS.

PERTINENT QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT. LONDON, November 13. M,r Swift - MacNedll has given notice of questions in the Bouse of Commons deal, ing with the positions of the Dukes of Cumberland and Albany. With regard to the former, Mr Mac Neill asks the Prime Minister “whether he is aware that the Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale in the peerage of Great Britain and Earl of Armagh in the peerage of Ireland, and a prince, of .the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,*"* is in command of troops -in the German army engaged in active hostilities against the Sovereign and people of the British Empire, whether he is aware that the; first Duke of Cumberland, the paternal grandfather of the present Dyke, alter.Ms accession to the throne of Hanover, ! t6ok the oath of allegiance in England, and sat in. the House of Lords <aa a p&er oi Great Britain by -herfeditary 'right; whether the present Duke of Cumberland, who was. bom a British subject, has since divested himself of his British nationality, and, if so, how and when; and whether, having regard to the fact that the present Duke of Cumberland is in arms with the enemies of the British Empire against the Sovereign of that Empire, and guilty of high treason, any, and, if so, what steps will' be taken to secure that he shall no longer retain British and Irish titles or peerages and a seat in the House of .Lords.” The question dealing with the case of the Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, and Barorf Arklow, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, is in almost identical terms. H.8.H., of course, is Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the Duke of Connaught and his son Prince Arthur having renounced succession rights on the death of the late Duke (Duke of Edinburgh and brother of King Edward VII), while the Duke of Albany—a posthumous child—accepted succession in the right obtaining through his father, youngest son of Queen Victoria.

Mr Mac Neill asks the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the Duke is in command of troops in the German army engaged in active hostilities against the Sovereign and people of the British Empire, “whether the Duke of Albany aver divested himself of his British nationality, and if so, how or when; and whether, having regal'd to the fact that the Duka of Albany is in arms with the enemies of th© British Empire against the Sovereign of this Empire and guilty of Mgh treason, any and, if so, what steps will be taken to secure that he shall no long, er retain United Kingdom peerages and titles and a seat in the House of Lords,”