Arizona republican., 1898-09-30
4 SCANDAL OF
 THE CARD TABLE

If Emperor William, the other day, was more than ordinarily effusive in his praise Of General vcl GOetZe, the commander Of the Seventh army corps, when he reviewed it at Minden. it was because Ee had just been compelled to dismiss from the army the generals cnly son, who had lost at cards 9 sum of nearly 100000 marks, representing almost the entire fortune Of his father, writes Marquise De Fontenoy in, the Washington Post.
 Young Lieutsnant vOn Goesze was not the only officer concerned in the card table scandal, which resulted in his dismissal. A brother officer, Prince Alfred, only son and heir Of the reign ing duke of Saxe-Coburg-G -Gotha, and grandson of Queen Victoria, lost in the neighborhood of 60,O00 marks at the same game, and then both the prince and V0n Goetze rendered desperate by their losses, charged the winner of the game, namely, Baron von Der Planitz, the adjutant of the First regiment of guards, to which they all belonged, with unfair play.
 Goe-ze, il must be remembered, knew that he had financially ruined his
 
 father is famous as the most close-fst- ed, mean, and avaricious sovereign in Christendom, realized that life would not be worth living after he had been compelled to apply to khe duke for money 10 pay his losses.
 The grave charge Of cheating result ed in 3 hand-to-hand scufie, in which the prince took part, and in an ex- change Of challenges. Fortunately the colonel commanding the regiment learned Of the matter in time, placed the three officers under close arrest, and then reported to the emperor, ask ing for his instructions, the First reg iment Of guards being the pet corps of the kaiser, the crack regiment of the German army, the enc in which every prince Of the blcod in Germany makes his military debut as an officer, and which. in the times of the father Of Frsderick the Great, was known as the regiment of giants
 The emperor ordered the matter to be brought before court of honor, composed Of officers of the regiment, presided over by the general in com mand of the brigade of guards. This court of honor gave it's verdict to the emperor, who has not made it public But that it's character is unfavorabie to all concerned may be gathered from the fact that both Won Goetze and Ad jutant von Der Planitz have been dis missed from the army, while Prince AL fred was accorded long leave of ab- sence, and at the same time transferred from this crack regiment Of the Ger man army to line regiment stationed at Darmstadt, the capital Of his broth cr-in-law's grand duchy of Hesse.
 The emperor has likewise forbidden any duel in connection with the affair, and if, in, spi,e of this, Ghe two officers should fight about the matter, they will run a very serious risk Of punishment fer attempt to murder.
 Of course the officer who is left most badly off in connection with this en- tire affair, Is Baron von Der PlanitZ. For as the matter stands now he re- mains under the imputation of having been guilty Of unfair play at cards, and as such will be mere or less sub ject to the most cruel form of ostra- cism and suspicion, a suspicion indeed which will give che right to any one to insult him with impunity, and then to refuse to meet him on the field of honor, or accord to him what is known in the old world as satisfaction.
 Prince Alfred has found it conven- tent to go abroad fer a time, and is now in Russia, where he will remain on a visit to his cousin, the czar, and as a guest likewise of the Grand Duke Sergius, until the end of the year.
 The emperor took the very first oc- casion that offered itself to summon the officers of the First regiment of guards before him, and administered to them one of the worst wiggings that they have ever received since he became emperor, the kaiser taking the ground that the origin of the scandal must be sought in the high play which is the curse Of so mluy regiments in the German, Austrian anu Russian armies.
 Queen Marguerite Of Italy has now