Royal Privileges in Germany.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVLI, Issue 10, 6 September 1911, Page 51

Royal Privileges in Germany.

The Prussian railway administration, which spreads almost over the entire German empire, has just issued regulations granting new privileges to Royalty in travelling. For the future the princes are to have special trains at specially cheap rates, and W’hile the ordinary traveller must pay for at least 12 places when he orders a special train, the

prince will only be charged for the ex act number of places he occupies. Another regulation is that when a, prince expresses a wish to travel in* a particular compartment of an ordinary express the compartment must be placed at his disposal, and even where no wish is expressed, the stationmaster is to offer the prince a compartment to himself. When princely specials are running, locomotives with steam up are to be kept, in readiness at all the chief stations along the line of travel, and the Royal waiting-rooms arc to bo kept Toady, whether the train stops at them or not. The prince’s special, of course, takes precedence of all other trains, no matter at what cost in the wav of delay to the hitter.