The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-20
SOLDIER WILL NOT
 WORK ON SUNDAY New Development in the
 German Army ROYAL ROMANCES Princess Louisa Is Publishing Me- moirs to Vindicate Herself
 Against Accusations of
 Which She Is Victim
By MALCOLM CLARKE

 lduty on Sundays. He gave his reason e
 ligious scrupies. Soldiers as defenders O
 the faith are something new.
 An extraordinary scene took place re
 cently at the Lutheran church, Chariot
 tenburg. The clergyman, pr. Craatz tool lup during his discourse the subject O
 Pastor Jatho, who has been dtsmisse,
 from the state church on account of hi ! eccentric views, and alluded to the yer
 dict pronounced upon Jatho, declaring il his defence that the Bible was now hel, to be a human work.
 Several officers of the Grenadier Guards
 who were with their companies among tn, lcongregation, rose and beckoned their mer to follow them from the building. Tn, church walls ring. and the pastor va. compeued to make pause in his scr mon. The soldiers threaten to boycott the church unless the pastor is removed | A Trench socialist, who at secret meet ings hurls defiance at everything re- gently started on a run from this city and he Is said to be still galloping. A decree of expulsion from Germany has been issued against M. Yvetot of Paris on account of a speech delivered by him at a social democratic meeting here. Yvetot spoke insultingly of the German government, and called upon soldiers In case of war to turn their rifles on their own officers. Before the decree of expul- sion could be executed he had started on run to avoid punishment
 King Frederick Augustus of Saxouy re- gently applied for permission for hrs former wife-who eloped with ilis son's s prircess-to spend the remainder Of her days with her mother. After elopement the crown princess was discarded by her husband, and forced to assume the title of Countess of Montignoeo Then Saxon court decreed a divorce, which the Pope refused to stand for. Subsequently the countess married an Italian pianist named Toselli, from whom she now seeks to di- vorce. Having nowhere else to go, she wishes to live with her mother. As Ter mother resides in Bavaria, Signora Toselli could only live there by permission of the regent, and that would only be granted on the application of the King of Saxony. Permission has been given.
 It does not appear what influence was brought to bear on King Frederick, but 1t did not require much persuasion to in- duce him to apply for this favor to the | woman who is the mother of his six chill dren, and In the eyes of the church still his wife. We shall soon have pictur- esQue farce here.
 The three Kaiser parades'' of the Elev- enth and Second Corps of Guards will be remarkable for the large number of lady colonels who will appear in full l uniform at the head of their regiments. The Empress will ride at the head of her regiment of Fusiliers at Alcona, and at stettin she will again lead the Eighty second Cuirassiers, of both of which reg iments she is honorary colonel Queen Victoria of Sweden will probably aIpear in her uniform as colonel of the Thirty fourth Fusiliers, and at the same parade Princess Eitel Frederick will ride at the head of the Twelfth Dragons.
 Princess Louisa Is about to publish her memoirs with view to vindcating herself against the accusations to which certain incidents in her career have given rise. After having refused the hand of Ferdi- hand of Bulgaria she was sought In mar- riage by Frederick August and left the comparative freedom of her fathers house at Salsburs for the rigid and gloomy court of Dresden. The princess was young and full of spirits. She found her husband kind, but from the beginning her father in-law, King George, conceived a strange dislike for her. This may have been due to his morose disposition, but in the IT gin his aversion was excited by people of the court. who intrigued against the princess In one powerful chapter, entitled "J accuse" the princess makes a definite charge against a nobleman of the Dresd en court, and plainly hints that he was ac- | tive in poisoning the mind of the King against her.
 | It was in 1902 that the climax came The King threatened his daughter-in- law with Imprisonment in an asylum, and in a panic the princess fied from Dresden to her fathers roof at Salsburg. There her | story was not accepted by the grand duke, but the princess was so thoroughly fright ened that nothing could induce her to re- | turn.
 So in the end she fled to Switzerland with her brother. It was only there that M. Giron appeared upon the scene. and. in order to cut off all connection with tn c Dresden court the princess, though inno- cent, allowed herself to be compromised and so the divorce decree was pronounced. Such is the tale which the princess has to tell in her memoirs, and, as an indi- cation of the sensation which their publi- oation may produce, it may be menti) ned that she has already been threatened with the withdrawal of her alimony by the Dresden court if she allows her vindica tion to be printed.
 Frederick Augustus and his two SC ms have been caravanning incognito. Most things bore his majesty, and he has late fly developed what amounts almost 10 an aversion of strangers. He defines him Iself as The saddest man in Europe" for he has never recovered from the ef- fleets of the tragedy of his wife's deser- ltion. Her name is never mentioned in lis presence, and every picture of her has been removed from the walls of his mat lesty's homes. In the last three or four years the King has aged greatly He takes a keen interest in the happenings of 1.-the day, and Is said to be especially fas- lcinated by the progress of aviation. Being Ito marry while his wife lives nor has he lany desire to do so. Those who know him
 bes. say that If he dared he would take
 back hls wife, which Is impossible, as his subjects would not hear of it.
 curious story was told when charge lof attempting to blackmail the widowed Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (ths Duchess of Edinburgh) was brought q
 Weimar, against a Jena advocate named IDr. Julius Wernsdorf. Three years egt , lthe duchess commissioned Baroness vol der Brnken to buy some Russian lace