The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-02
THE WARLIKE PRINCE.

The Military Nature, Training, and
Accomplishments of the Heir to the
German Throne-A Natural and En-
thusiastic Soldier-Not Deficient as
Scholar-A Good Orator-What Win
His Future Be2
From the London telegraph.
Frederick William Victor Albert, the new
German Crown Prince and Prince of Prus-
sia is young man of great mental ability
and strongly marked individuality.
Despite his youth and the necces-
sary self-effacement which is an
Unborn obligation of all the subordinate
members of the House of Hohenzolern, in
Guiding the heir apparent to the throne,
during the lifetime of the reigning sover-
elgn of Prussia, Prince William, since he
attained his majority ten years ago, has
impressed himself upon the minds of the
leading German statesmen and soldiers in
such sort as to obtain from them discreet
but unanimous recognition as man of
strong will, high ambi tons, and consider
able intellectual power, in all probability
destined to play a conspicuous part in the
great historical drama of which continental
Europe IS the appointed stage.
By Prussian Generals of undisputed
authority in military matters, this Prince
of eight-and-twenty is frankly acknowl-
edged to be an accomplished officer,
thoroughly versed in the art of war, and
accurately acquainted with every detail of
| drill, discipline and organization, in con-
nectlon w.th all branches of the service to
which he has belonged throughout the
past eighteen years, which qualify a man
to take the command of a mighty army i'll
the field, and to lead it to victory. Prince
William unlike his gifted father-a warrior
| and chief of warriors rather by the incum-
hanpipS of rth and hxyN
| tion-is a soldier by instinct and predilec-
| ton, enthusiastically devoted to the pro-
feSsiOn of arms, which he has studied with
| rare asslduity and perseverance, and
| thoroughly confident of his own capacity
| to achieve splendid successes with the mag
nikcent machine which, in the course of
nature, must one day be committed to his
| supreme management and direction He
has made himself intimately acquainted
with every corps-we might confidently
| say with every regiment-of his
| grandfather's army; has served and
| passed examinations of efficiency in
cavalry, artillery, engineer, and in
| fantry regiments, as well as in the gem
eral staff; and is without doubt at the pres
| ent moment the most popular officer in the
Prussian army, with the rank and file no
| less than with the officers corps. He has
| for some years past made no secret of his
| eager desire to reap an abundant crop of
| laurels on the field of glory; and soldiers of
| light and leading his senior in age and
| rank. and instructors in warlike science,
| have not been wanting to encourage his
military ambition by the assurance that he
has inherited the strategical genius, coup
| dRH, and quick sound judgment of his
| illustrious ancestor, Frederick the Great.
Conscious, however, that his high mission
| in life is not exclusively one of conquest,
Prince William has devoted a great portion
of his time during the past decade to quail
| flying himself for the able fulfillment of a
sovereign's multlfarious duties. He has
acquired no mean proficiency in jurispru-
dence, practical science, and political
economy; is well grounded in mathematics,
| and has bestowed extraordinary pains in
| making himself master of the French and
English languages. He is ready, fluent,
! and vigorous speaker, terse in dlction and
| impressive in delivery. When he quilted
the University of Bonn, at which he was
| in almost continuous residence for eighteen
months, he abstained throughout a period
! of more than half year from the military
| duties to which his inclination PROMPTED
him to revert, and plunged into the routine
of the Prussian civil service. with the result
that he speedily became an adept in the
practical work Of State administration,
central and provincial. During this phase
| of his preparation for rule he
paid frequent visits to the Inn
perial Chancellor, whose political dis
ciple he undoubtedly is, according to his
own unreserved savowal, and into whose
confidence he is believed to have been far
more intimately admitted than was ever
the case with the present German En-
! peror.
Those who have been most constantly as
ISOLATED and brought into contact with his
| imperial highnesS anticipate that Germany's
European and colonial policy, when his
personal influence shall be directly brought
| to bear upon it, will assume a more active
and stirring character than that which
sgnalized it throughout the imperial reign
of William l., whose attitude toward the
successive international differences and
| burning questions of the past sixteen
years was uniformly inspired ry a steadfast
resolve to maintain the general peace of
| Europe, as far as in him lay, and above
| all to avert the horrors of war from united
| Germany The Princes recent public
utterances, through which a high-throbbng
vein of martial ardor has distinctly run,
| justify the impression generally entertained
| by his fellow-countrymen-t he will be
| found ready. on any emergency, to vindi-
cate the Fatherland's dignity and honor by
an appeal to the sword, and that he will be
inclined TO take warlike rather than a
pacific view of any difficulties in which
Germany, under his leadership, may be-
come involved with her immediate neigh
bOrS.