The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-11-25
STARTLING
SENSAT TONS
IN COURT LIFE
The Publication of German
Princes Memoirs Causes
Stir in Berlin.
SOME OF THE SECRETS AND
SCANDALS OF THE RECENT
PAST MAY DEVELOP WHEN Eff
Feet OF LETTERS is FULLY Ac-
coMPLlSHED.
(Bx Frazier DouaIass.l

(By Frazier Douglass.)
Berlin, Nov. 24.-It will be long
time before the sensation caused by
the publication of the memoirs of
Prince Choodwig Won HOhenlohe will
die down in official circles at least.
The memoirs of themselves are of abb
sorbing interest, and form altogether
a chroique scandaleuse which no one
could have expected of the kaiser's
third chancellor. Prince Alexander
of Hohenlohe must have had an axe
to grind" in the publication of this
sensational and extraordinary book.
He knows perfectly we'll that his ca
reer as government functionary is at
an end forever. But the imagination
refuses to conceive. a Regierungs pres
ident and his son throwing such
bomb shell into the imperial camp out
of sheer want of thought. Prince
Alexander and the people behind him
know perfectly well what they were
about and why they did it. The
reason for their action will probably
appear later though it may never be
made public. One thing the memoirs"
confirm and that is the exent with
which the Berlin court reeks with in
trigue. The constant struggle of
Prince Bismarck against a section of
the court party and even against his
own subordinates in the foreign of
fee is emphasized on every second
page. Then the backstair's influence
against Count CapriH is also re-
vealed. 1t must be confessed that
of all the figures in Modern Germany
the kaiser's second chancellor Is the
only one who gains in the respect of
his fellowmen by the perusal of Prince
Chlodwig's memoirs" His upright,
chivalrous and soldierly nature is
done full justice to, and the contempt
ible fashion in which he was treated
by the court camarilla is clearly ex-
posed. =
Sensational Letters.
For many years it may perhaps be
remembered a sensation was caused
at the Berlin court by series of an
noying anonymous letters received by
It's most prominent members. No one
was spared, not even the emperor and
empress. The writer was undoubted-
ly some one belonging to the inner
circle of the court The mysterious
correspondent wrote with a pen
STEPPED in gall and wormwood, de-
nouncing scandals of al. kinds and
spreading distrustH and suspicion
everywhere. Secret police were en-
ployed, experts in handwriting we're
consulted, and the marshal of the
court set a watch on everybody he
could think of but all in vain. II
was even .rumored the writer was
member of one of the reigning fami-
lies, so intimate a knowledge of the
sayings and the doings of royalty did
the anonymous correspondent mani
fest.
One day Baron Won Schroeder. one
OF the masters of ceremonies of the
royal court discovered on a blotting
pad in the casino of the officers of
the guards in the PARSER Platz traces
OF one of these mysterious letters. The
person who had used this pad he de-
clared was Baron Won EltZ, one of
his colleagues in the Lord Chamber
la1n's department Baron Won Eltz
was arrested and an inquiry opened.
he was finally after six weeks sent
before a court martial As an officer
OF reserve of the guards he was
amenable to military discipline. He
was however able to bring proofs of
his innocence, the chief being that
while in prison the anonymous let
tiers continued to be received bv
members of the court.
Fought A Duel.
When released Baron Won EJtz