The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-26
PRINCESS RADZIwILL's
 SUIT FOR MILLIONS.
It is Against the Estate of Cecil Rhodes and Promises Sensational Revelations Concerning High
 English Officials.

GnRI1Sn Oucla1S.
 A correspondent, writing from London says:
 London gossips declare that not little genuine anxiety is felt in diplomatic and governmental circles at the suggestion that the suit of the Princess Radziwill against the estate of Cecil Rhodes will lead to scandalous revelations, which, it is supposed, will have to do with the famous Jameson raid aSd the parts that certain high officials, including Joseph Chamberlain, played secretly in that af- fair It Is expected that there may re- suit much embarrassment for the Birm- ingham statesman in his present cam paign for the abandonment of Englands s traditional policy of free trade.
 The career of the Princess Radziwlll is a most romantic one, and her relations with Cecil Rhodes at a time when his schemes as an "emplre builder were at their height. though shrouded in mystery, were intimate.
 The Princess is now in London after serving ter moi eighteen months inn prisonment in Cape Town on the charge of having forged Cecil Rhodes name fin sums estimated at from $120.0 600 to $200. 600, She has already commenced proceedings to obtain $7.O0O,000 of the $50. 0,OO0 estate, and though she is for the moment, dis credited and regarded as an adventures, there is everywhere a feeling that the trial may throw such light on what the late NJ. de Blowitz. the correspondent of The London Times, has called "the enigma of these two lives" as will cause complete reversal of public sentiment. It was DeBlowitz. It will be remembered, who said shortly after the trial of the Princess in South Africa that the death of the great man was hastened by the scandal of her arrest and imprisonment in a common jail and the rumors per sistently coupling her name with his in a romantic love affair
 Cecil Rhodes was known as q woman hater, and Is said to have chafed under the reported enthrallment of even this radiantly fascinating woman, whose gifts of intellect and grace of mind were not less compalIing than her beauty and dash, and whose bounding ambitions were back ed by a determination to conquer all things. Nobody has ever understood the frinedship which existed between the two, and which seems to have ended in bitter quarrel. but her lawyers now say that this will all be explained at the trial, and they add that her claim for the millions she ia suing for is based on a properly certified contract in writing.
 The Princess Radziwill is a Pole by birth. and, whatever her purposes or aspira tions she Is a real princess. con- nected by both birth and marriage with some of the greatest and noblest families of Russia and Germany. She is 45 years old. She is the daughter of Count Rze- wuski. Polish noblemau, who was a general and an aide-de-camp to the Elm peror Nicholas I, and of his wife, the Countess Dachkoff. one of the best of Russian names. She married when only 15 years of age Prince Augustin Radzi- will. whose family figures for centuries nthe annals of the development of PTus- sia. By this union she had three chill dren. one of whom is now the wife of a prince. the grandson of Butcher.
 After her marriage the princess lived for time in Berlin, where she knew in- timately the old Emperor William, Prince