The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-17
GERMANY NOW SEES| FUTURE OF A|RSH|PS' Will Mean Much in Wars to
 Come GROWN PRINCE ON TRIP French Dancer With Few Clothes Gets Into Serious Trouble-Well Known Composer Shoots Him.
 self-A New League 
GROWN PRINCE ON TRIP
By MALCOLM CLARK

as an adjunct to her military prepared
 ness. The use of the aeroplane by the | Italians in Tripol has demonstrated to the | war office the superiority of the heavier
 than air machine over the dirigible for
 war purposes and it has been decided to
 spend s1.5OO.0OO on aeroplanes during the
 coming year.
 Work on the dirigibles, to which atten-
 tion has been mainly given in the past, will not be abandoned, but they will play
 a secondary part in Germany's air plans.
 The work will be done with the usual
 German thoroughness, and it is confident
 ly believed that within year or two the
 Kaisers army will be as well equipped
 as that of France, the acknowledged lead
 CT in army aeronautics.
 The whole of Germany is to be divided
 into various districts, each having it's own
 flying squadron. It is estimated that the
 number of German flying machines in use
 by the end of the next year will exceed l 23o
 The brightest and most daring young of | ficers in the army will be assigned to
 this work and extra inducements in the
 way of rank and pay will be offered them
 as reward for originality and proficiency
 The crown prince, after distinguishing
 himself by testifying to his disapproval | of the imperial chancellor's policy in a l very ostentatious manner in the reichstag,
 determined to thoroughly enjoy the re- mainder of his four days leave from Danzig and military service. On the fol- lowing afternoon he mortored out to Jo- l hannisthal. to the fine aerodrome where l the Zeppelin and Parseval dirigibles have l their sheds, and where long rows of han gars are erected. His imperial highness announced his intention of going for | sail in. the Zeppelin Schwaben, and the | other passengers were seven in number. | One of the4slady passengers, wife of a | Berlin merchant, was busy writing pie
 ture postcards during the trip. which last
 ed two hours, and rather timidly asked the l prince if he would give his autograph. l With his usual friendliness his imperial l highness complied, and learning that the card was going to an American lady in | California, he wrote a few words of | greeting in English. t HA 1 Mile. Vilany, French dancer, has had
 a very unpleasant experience in Munich. | She was appearing in a theatre before invited" spectators, who paid very high | prices for their seats,'' in series or dances which had the common feature l that in all of them the lady's attire was of
 the very scantiest description In fact, it
 is said, that her only garment was "a very airy vel.'' One of her turns was q | dance such as the princesses of ancient | Egypt were accustomed to perform at | banquets This terpsichorean display," l says a telegram from the Bavarian capi- | tai, threw anything but a favorable light | on the moral side of the princesses of an- 1 tiquity' The inevitable Soome dance was, of course, not lacking. and enabled the lady to display her phyiscal charms
 in the best light" Whether the apprecia- tion of earlier audiences had tempted her | to fresh indiscretions is not clear, adds | the Berlin correspondent of the Telegraph, but at her closing performance the spec | tators came to the conclusion that she had l stepped to the other. side Of the borders | of the permissible and broke into a tur-
 moil of hooting and hissing. This appears | to have suddenly awakened the moral
 consciousness of the police. who at once
 intervened, stopped the performance, and, leaving Mile. Vilany time to change for ! the airy veil into her usual clothes. wrapped a mantle round her and hustled her off to jail. She will, it is said, be ex-
 peled from Bavaria for an offense against l | morality. |
 Frau Cecile Mayer, the widow of rail-
 way navvy, has withdrawn her further | plea before the Berlin courts for the sur | render to her of the boy known as Count | Joseph Kwilocki, on the ground that he was in reality her son. This finally dis | poses of the celebrated case in which l | Count Hector Kwilocli, distant cousin, | | claimed the inheritance to large family | estates in Poland on the ground that the | l boy, who has since inherited the estate, | was not the son of Count Ignaz Kwilecki 1
 and his wife. but had been obtained from
 Frau Cecile Mayer and passed off by them as their son. Herr Adolf Boohm, the well known com | poser. shot himself with revolver in his | wife's flat in Berlin. Herr Boohm and his | wife, famous as Frau von Endert, had | been living apart and the day before his | death the husband in view of an impend-
 ing divorce. had proposed to his wife's
 sister, who rejected him. It is also said that the deceased belonged to a Wies-
 baden club, 9 per cent of whom take their lives annually. Frau Boohm is one of the
 best known singers at the Royal Opera
 House in Berlin.
 The Actors association at Breslau has | issued special forms of application for the use of romantic school gsrls who write for autographs of artists.
 new league known as Young Ger many was formerly founded here today under the presidency of Field Marshal Von der Goltz. Its members are to be boys from the age of II tS 19 The training is to be such as to promote self reliance and initiative, and the chief ideals to be set before the members are the virtues of self ] sacrifice. obedience courage, chlvalry, gratitude and honesty. The new scheme , has been modelled on the English Boy z Scouts.'
 The Krupps who supply guns to the German empire and to half of the world besides, have now invented a terrible weapon known as the bomb gun It fires ( a huge, very brittle bomb. containing 16o pounds of chemicals. As it bursts it fills , the air with poisonous gases, in which ?, no human being can live. The gases from $ one bomb will kill everyone within a ra- E dius of 500 yards. This weapon apparent i ly will make it impossible for soldiers to , remain in open trenches. In experiments I on animals with the bombs it was found { that the fumes turned them green. The new bomb cannon" presents some most 2 differences in appearance as well { as construction from any other type of { modern ordnance Tn fact 1t more re- i !