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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 14, 1939.

TO-DAY'S STRANGE STORY OF REAL PEOPLE

THE CASE OF EMPEROR FREDERICK

By JOEL C. MATHEWS During the year that elapsed be- tween the Spring of 1887 and the Spring of 1888, the imperial court of Berlin was the scene of mysterious happenings which have since kept the whole world guessing.

William the Great, the first Emperor of the federated German States, was to slowly dying. His son, the heir the proposed throne, the Crown Prince Frederick, was by all odds the most 'popular man in the empire. In the Franco-Prussian War he had been great hero, worshipped by his soldiers, who had affectionately dubbed him "Unser (Our) Fritz."

Emperor Frederic

William I

Kaiser Wilhelm II

DEATH OF MISS PANSY DODD

THE COLONY LOST A PROMIS- ING YOUNG HOCKEY EXPONENT THIS MORNING WHEN MISS PAN- SY DODD, WHO WAS ONLY 17, DIED IN THE FRENCH HOSPITAL. The funeral will take place this the cortege passing afternoon, the Monument at 5.30 p.m.

Deceased had been ill for three weeks and was admitted to the French Hospital on Sunday. She studied at the Diocesan Girls' School and was prominent in all school sports, parti- dis- cularly in hockey in which she tinguished herself in the centre-half berth.

Tournaments.

the

He clipped out a It was a neck-and-neck race against this great savant. 8

She represented the D.G.S. in Frederick's throat the Grim Reaper. "Unser Fritz" won. portion of Prince tissue and sent it for analysis to the On March 9, 1888, when Kaiser Wil-Brawn Cup Hockey Competition and noted Professor Virchow. Virchow helm der Grosse gave up the ghost, in the annual Seven-A-Side Hockey announced that the tissue contained his dying son was doctored up with no indication of cancer and this pro- stimulants, hurried to Berlin nouncement proved a great dis- crowned. He occupied the appointment to the partisans of the just 99 days. young Prince William. They imme- diately accused Dr. Mackenzie

Like most really great men, Crown Prince Frederick was democratic. Yet, in person he was far more impressive than even his father, William I. Be- tween him and his father there was an

estrangement, as there was also be tween him and his son, the present ex- Kaiser, now in exile at Doorn.

A dozen years before the Franco- Prussian War, Frederick had married Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, the Princess Victoria.

of

having fraudulently clipped from an

She leaves a and

grand-mother, a throne mother, and two brothers to mourn

her loss.

ODA LEAVES AGAIN

INDIAN YOUTH

MISSING

SPLITTING UP THE PRIZES

London, To-day.' The French Navy announces that three-quarters of the value of prizes in naval warfare will go

any

to

The remainder will be divided in the proportions of 25 per cent for the officers and 75 per cent for the crew. -Reuter.

unafflicted portion of the Crown Mr. Oda, Japanese Consul-General Prince's throat the tissue which had in Hong Kong, left for Japan yester- been used for analysis, and Queen day morning to report to the For- Victoria replied to his accusation from eign Office on the general situation in her grandson's followers by imme-1 South China. diately knighting Dr. Mackenzie. In his absence Mr. Tajiri will off-the State. The Princess had become unpopular Partisans of the Crown Princess | ciate as acting Consul-General. · with the German people. Her eldest now made some charges which per- child, the present ex-Kaiser, early de-haps had no foundation more firra veloped a bumptiousness which allen- ated him from his father, himself the most unaffected and natural of men. Because Frederick had sought to keep his conceited son in the back-ed to hasten his end. ground until he could be cured of his vanity the later never forgave these paternal efforts to suppress what he considered as his God-given cleverness and genius. Indeed, young William, when only the heir presumptive, ac- cused his father of being jealous of his own.extraordinary talents.

This breach between the Crown Prince and his son, Prince William, widened early in 1867, when it was whispered throughout Europe that the former was suffering from cancer of the throat. As a matter of fact, fol- lowing a severe cold Frederick hed developed in his throat a growth which was the causs of serious scientific con- troversy.

Instead of standing by his father in this grave emergency, Prince William allowed, it to but whet his insatiable ambition. He gathered about him a strong court faction, which had the audacity to propose that the afflicted Prince Frederick's claim to the crown be set aside because it would be un- wholesome to the state of the empire to have upon the throne a ruler af- flicted with an incurable malady. Al- though he realized that his father, the old Emperor William, was near unto death, Frederick is said to have signed a formal pledge that he would abdicate his claims to the throne in favour of his son, should it be proved that his malady was incurable.

On hearing of this proposed abdica- tion Frederick's English wife, the Crown Princess, become highly indig- nant, as justly as she might be. Her husband might sign away not only his but her own possible prospects of wearing ૧ monarch's crown. Her mother, Queen Victoria, backed her her in her insistence upon up rights. So, to 'contravert her son's efforts to prove that his father was dying of cancer, the Crown Princess sent to England for that country's eminent throat specialist, Dr. most Morell Mackenzie.

All Europe awaited the diagnosis of

than the suspicions that Frederick must be taken out of Germany to escape the machinations of his Ger- man physicians who had been engag-

Frederick was hurried to England and to San Reno. It was said that young William had become absolutely estranged from both his father and mother, and rumour also had it that Dr. Mackenzie, at the request of the British royal family, was subjecting Frederick to terrible tortures that he might outlive his aged father, if only for a few days.

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