The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-19
To WIFE
RUINED GENERAL
Death OF Princess Gabrielle Hatz-
feldt Recalls Betrayal Of
Count Clam-Gal1as.
RUssIA's IA, M Gus ORDER

Grand Cross Of st. George OF the
First Class Has Been Con-
ferred Only Upon Four.
by LA MARaUISE DE FONTENOY,
tnR INCEsS GABRIELLE HAITI
- FELD'rS death has the effect OF
I paein srn In mEn ans1a hssttzte epy
Clara Huntington. Of Detroit, Mich.
me adopted daughter of Coils Z.
Huntington. the railroad n1agnate. II
also serves to recall an extraordinary
and now almost forgotten episode OF
history. During the war between AUS
tria and Prussia, General Count I'd
ward Clam-Gallas was Entrusted Win
the command of the First Army Corps
IN Bohemia. and still bears the blame
to this day of having permitted inc
the frontier without opposition. on
tile eve OF the great battle Of Sadowa
he was suddenly deprived of his COM
mand and sent under close arrest 70
Vienna by. order of the generallssllllo'
Field Marshal Benedek, orders being
given for his being brought before q
scourt-martial.
good deal of mystery prevailed al
first with regard to the nature OF the
charges brought against him. incomp.e-
cry, being advanced as the cause OF
the deprival of his command. and OF
his being placed under the closest
kind Of arrest. The story went that
one of the principal causes of the
overwhelming disaster to austrian
authorities had been kept fully posted
in advance about all the movements
and plans of the Austrian army. and
that they had obtained THIS lntorna-
tion through Count Clam Calais. It
was this inform alton, indeed. that mad
enabled the Prussian right wing to
select a part OF the Bohemian frontier
that was totally unprotected by the
Clam Calais army corps.
1t seems that the count had been
wife at Vienna, giving her the fullest
kind of details of all his military pro-
jects and plans. and likewise Of all
the instructions which he had received
from Benedek. The countess, on her
side. was in daily correspondence with
her sister, Princess Gabrielle Hatzfeldt.
at Berlin. and as soon as she received
her husbands letters, impaired the
Information contained therein by letter
to the princess. The latter's husband.
eldt-Wildenburg, transmitted the
data thus secured to Moltke and Bis
marck. The matter vas never definite
~ brought to life. as the Emperor
suddenly stopped the proceedings OF
the court-martial and suspended all
Clam Gallas, having. it is said, con-
vinced himself that the count and
countess had been guilty of nothing
worse than gross indiscreton. and
We're beside themselves with horror
when they discovered the abuse TO
which their private correspondence
had been subjected. Indeed. the count.
although relieved from all suspicion
OF treachery by the Emperor and by
his fellow officers. who recalled the
which he displayed In the Wars OF
ton of the caoaa 81 as Marie sre fkefsse
insisted on leaving the army and retir-
ing TO his estates. refusing to see
any one. thoroughly embittered and
disappointed man. His wife followed
him into this voluntary exile. and the
untiring devotion of this beautiful
and accomplished woman, formerly the
most brilliant hostess Of the Vienna
ISOLATION for the misfortunes which he
felt that he had unwittingly brought
upon his beloved country.
BY a strange coincidence. the peace
between Prussia and Austria termi-
mating the war. was signed at the
longing to the countess's other sister
Princess Alexander Dietrichstein. Al!
three sisters were daughters OF
Prince Joseph Dietrichstein. who
Vienna in 1915, and whose father had
been sovereign OF the principally OF
Dietrichstein until the dissolution OF
the Holy Roman Empire by the First
Napoleon. Prince Joseph Dietrichstein
died in 1858. without male Issue, ieav-
q t,I .
Of her sisters. the late Countess Clam
CALAIS and the Princess Gabrielle Hatz-
feldt, VINO has just died, the second
daughter, Alexandrine, assumed pos
session OF the family estates. and in
duced the Emperor to confer her faith
cr's title of Prince Dletrlchstein upon
her husband Count Alexander Mems
dorn -Pouilly. a very DISTINGUISHED
man. who had held the office Of Min
i ,sss OF Foreign Affairs at Vienna in
the the iato Prince Consort of Great
Britain. and also of Queen Victoria,
MS mother having been Duchess Sc
phtn OF Sake Coburg. sister OF the
rrlnGe Consents father. and also OF
NE a,Gchess % Kent. who was Queen
inc elder OF whom is the second Prince
Dlotrlchstein of the present and nno.
medlaGzed creation. while the other
son Is Count Albert Mensdorff- Pollily
Gc q. ambassador to the court OF
St. James. The daughter Is married
to Count Albert Apponyi the Hun ,e
ran statesman. one Of the chiefs OF
me Magyar nationalist opposition and
!fauer or the Austro- Hungary delega-
ton to the nterparliamentary Con.
sress at st. Louis six years ago.
Order OF st. George.
Fussla's famous military order OF
st. George. created by Empress Cathe-
rlne n 1862, has Just lost its unIy
remaining Knight Grand Cross and and
member OF the first class OF the orde,
n the person of old Grand Duk q Nj.
chael Nicholaiovitch. In the $50 years
Of the existence Of the order there
have been Is but three Russians besides
grand cross, ,famely the late CRAM
Duke Nicholas Nicholaiovitch, for hi:
victorious conduct OF the Russian
forces In Europe to San Stcfano, with.
| in sight OF the very walls - Cons tan.
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