1919-02-07 — Page 3

CROWN PRINCE'S ISLAND

IN A MODEST PARSONAGE,

Mr. George Renwick, the Daily Chronicle special correspondent in Holland, was on the Zulder "Zee island of Wieringen when the ax-Crown Prince arrived there, and he telegraphs the following interesting description of the humble parsonage in which the Royal exile is now living-

Port of De Haukes, Islands of Wieringen, Holland, Nov. 23 William Hohensollern, junior, German ex-Crown Prince, this afternoon reached this lonely little Zuider Zee island, which is to be his home for some time to come.

Wieringen has never achieved world fame before, being one of those quiet places which, having no history, is happy. It is off the tourist track in Holland: communication with tha mainland is but meagre: agriculture and easy-going fishery make the inhabitants fairly prosperous. Half a dozen little villages are dotted over this green island, and great churches, racing windmills, and spacious farmsteads make the landscape a truly Dutch one,

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On Wieringen one is well away from the busy world and its in- terests, and, truth to tell, the island would have preferred to have been left alone and not to have been rendered famous by NANTE the presence of one of the arch- Architects of the world-war. So many of the people are fishermen, and there are no fishermen of Western Europe who are not bitterly anti-German. And, in deed, the people of Wieringen erinced very slight interest in the notorious royal refuges.

The ex-Crown Prince left the residence of Count Metternich at Swalmen, near Roermond. and proceeded by train to Enkhuisen on the Zuider Zee. There a small Government yacht was waiting for him and a suite of three officers who accompany him. No sooner had the vessel left that port, however, than a heavy mist settled down, and the captain was compelled to put into Medemblik for the night.

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having been under submarine at Shepherd's Bush for 30s fire. No one appeared to be in-weekly. terested enough to follow the During his stay op the slow-paced carriage. The little island there will be no military crowd went off about its business. guard, and his moviments will be Did you see his coat ?" said a entirely under the control of the quaint old fishwife beside me. "It burgumaster of the island, Mr. still has the blood of the war on Peeroom. The exile will be re- it."

garded as a private person and

A drive of half an hour brought will receive bread, butter, and the exile to his residence-the meat cards just like anyone else. parsonage at the little village of From his sitting-room he will be Osterland. Here, again, he must able to look over a piece of sad have felt how far be bad fallen Dutch landscape towards the sea. No sentry stood before the door. The garden is not large.

Next door is the village Sunday The adjutant rang the bell, and a Dutch manservant appeared and school, and along what might be admitted the strange little band of an English country lane stands refugees.

the village of about a score of VISIT TO THE EXILE'S HOUSE. houses and little shops down on It was at night in a thick which looks the tall, substan- spire of the village mist that, in small fishing tial

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THE "VICTOR of LONGWY,” The journey was resumed this forenoon. Shortly after one boat. I sought the island of church. One would give some- o'clock the yacht, in tow, appro- Wieringen from the mainland. thing to hear the table talk in the ached the tiny port of De Haukes. Scrambling up over the rocks it parsonage, but there the world As it scraped the end of the pier was indeed like landing on some must leave the ex-Crown Prince in entering the harbour I had a St. Helens. A slow speaking, alone for a while with his faw good look at ** the victor of badly-dressed peasant offered to companions and his own strange Longwy," author of the "fresh get a carriage and drive me to thoughts.

was Osterland-be afterwards proved and joyous war," who standing on deck with his com- to be the richest man on the panions. For some minutes he island. was only two

three yards -DT away from me.

He has changed a good deal during the five years since I saw him last in Berlin. He looks even more inane, even more like

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him will be the islanders among And probably the first to forget

whom he lives. They simply are The We drove for three-quarters of not interested in him. an hour through the cold mist, victor of Longwy," "the stormer and finally drew up befere what of the Chemin des Dames," once heir to a great throne which is no might be badly-designed Brighton villa, rentable for about more, will not be disturbed by the £50 a year. It took some per-simple Wieringen people. the "Simplicissimus" cartoons of sassion to get the Dutchman in himself, but he is heavier under charge of the house to show me over the eyes, and his face has a some-it. Eventually, having consulted" what bloated look. He still wears those German non-commissioned his "toothbrush moustache; his officers who had already arrived, effeminate hands toyed with the I was admitted. inevitable cigarette. He wore a forced, awkward smile 26.55 he returned with one finger the frigid salutes of a few people on the pier.

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First, I was shown the ex-

The London correspondent of Prince's bedroom," a very small apartment, with a single iron the Japan Advertiser writes that beastead. On a table in the centre ten selected representatives of the of the room stood already a large the Chinese labourers at He was wearing an old tweed photo and miniature of the front are brought over to London cap much too large for him, and | ex-Crown Princess,

together every week. They are handed was wrapped in a shabby fur-lined with photos of the ex-Prince over by the War Office to the trench coat which made his slim Eitel Fritz and the ex-Prince Chinese Minister who entertains Oscar. Spread out around the them to tea at the Legation and photos were innumerable toilet then he passes them on to the stove burned brightly, and before YMCA who see to their pro- it sprawled the exile's favourite gramme. They are taken to see the greyhound, answering to the name the chief, sights

himself.

articles and preparations. An oil

figure appear almost Falstaffan. He was, indeed, a good cartoon of The yacht came slowly along side the landing-place, and the Prince, obviously ill at

case, though struggling hard to look pleasant, waited for a few for malities to be completed. William of Hobenzollern, junior, shook hands with a few people on the yacht, and then skipped jauntily Opposite is a still smaller bed-

IN A DILAPIDATED GROWLER.

of

of Futzel." On the table lay Metropolis. then to Cambridge the ex-Prince's first post-a single where DT. Barker, for- postcard with a Dutch postmark, merly of Wuchang, looks after and addressed to "Herr William them. Last week they want to of Hohenzollern."

Windsor where Princess Alice,

it was a sad effort to appear room, to be occupted by Major the Dutchess of Athlone, gave unconcerned-into the carriage von Mueller,. Downstairs is a them tea, signed their postcards, waiting a few yards away. ·

combined sitting-room and dining- and had them, shown round the room, so small that a table to seat Castle explaining that had "the I couldn't help thinking it was four leaves little space to move King not been absent he would only about six months since the about Adjoining that is a billiard-have done it himself." Natural- world read the Kaiser's pompous room, with a sad old Fronchly they were very pleased, message beginning: "This morn- billiard table. I know the Prince This episode may be commended ing William stormed the Chemin does not play billiards, but be evi- to the notice of our conferes des Dames." Here was the dently intends to employ some of of the remacular press who stormer of the Chemin des Dames his enforced leisure by taking up sometimes see "racial discrimin-

the game. scrambling into a carrage which

ation" through a magnifying was nothing but a dilapidated WILHELM ON· RATIONS. ̧ glass. To foreign readers who growler. No soldier presented The cloth appeared to have arme, not a single cheer was been out innumerable times and and Royal autographs on picture raised; I did not see a single badly mended. Its previous owner hat doffed. Half & dozen apparently had a habit of putting postcards are overdoing it in the portmanteaux- were brought down a lighted cigar or cigarette way of recognition for Chinese ashore, and Major von Muel-on the edge of the table or on the coolies, we would say that it ler, the ex-Crown Prince's cloth. A sorry array of cues would be a poor spirit that did adjutant, having entered the stood near, and the balls were not recognize that these men were! carriage, the vehicle went off at much the worse for wear. It was fellow fighters in a very useful- a funeral pace past scores of as though the ex-Prince has to if hamble sense, and that a little fishing boats," most of them long under-go Gilbertian punishment friendly courtesy, in addition to laid up on account of the the by playing on a board untrue, their hire, is not smias U boat war, some of them even with a twisted cue and eliptical

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