The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
MAY BE AN ANGLO-
 GERMAN MARRIAGE
Prince of Wales May Wed
 Victoria Louise
DWARFS HAVE EXHIBIT
Complete Circus Is Given in Minia- ture-German Crown Prince Has Been Complaining Against
 Orders
By MALCOLM CLARKE

By MALCOLM CLARKE
 Berlin, June A-(speciai.)-Aft all there may be royal union ne- tween England and Germany. Is the outcome of the kaisers visit to be the engagement of the Prince of Wales to his daughter, Princess Victoria Louise? Ihe difference of age-one of two years-ls not incompatible with prolonged happi- ness when the pair have such long lives ahead The fact of the kaiser inviting the prince to come here for his first for eign visit gives coolr to all gossip. On the other hand, there can be no question that the two young people were mot par ticularly thrown together. At the military tournament they were seated at oppo- site ends of the box.
 It is quite possible that if Princess Louise were to become Princess Of Wales, she might win the same enthus- iastic popularity as Queen Alexandria evoked when she came from Denmark.
 The sunny, lively temperament of the German is like that of her father at his best, but distilled by the influence of her own attractive 6emininity.
 A man at Munich who lost s1O,000 notes in the street and advertised a $500 re- ward to the finder, received a cheque for S9,700 from a man who wrote that to avoid delay he had appropriated his due.
 A demonstration" by dwarfs has aroused much interest here. The dwarfs are engaged at the Sport Palace, there are also a number of tiny ponies and a complete circus in miniature. The dwarfs are under the care of several impressarios and the impressarios elected one of their number as manager of the concern. The manager, whose name is Moses Gersen, and the manager of the Sport Palace" whose name is Goldstein, had numerous complicated transactions somewhat difficult to follow. their net result, however, being that the dwarfs declared themselves defrauded.
 So they demonstrated beIore the Sport Palace" maintaining that they had been deprived of their living, and that Gersen and Goldstein had not kept faith with them. The matter will be investigated by the courts. Goldstein. who calls himself Jacques Rostin, has been arrested.
 The German crown prince has been "kicking" against orders removing him from this city to sDantZig to take com mand of the Black Hussars. The "Lok- alanzeigler' published an extraordinary article-evidently inspired-exhorting him In parental style to recognize the ad- vantage of being able to pursue his mill itary duties freed from the trammels of the imperial court. The prince disll>es military routine. When he returned from his far eastern trip he showed no disposition to rejoin his regiment, but rather sought 10 act as an understudy to his father in spectacular speechmak- ing. The emporer promptly ordered him to Dantzig. and that set the crown prince and his entourage grumbling.
 The Imperial Insurance consolidation and Amendment bill has just been passed by the Reichtag. Apart from reforming organizations and administration the main results of the new legislature are, first, extension of sick insurance to az rlcutural and forest laborers dhey have hitherto been provided for only by the separate legislation of certain states) to home workers and to casual laborers i; and secondly, a modest beginning of in- surance of widows and orphans. It is estimated that the extension of sick in surance will include about seven million persons previously exempt. The govern ment estimates the cost of the extension of sicl, insurance and the introduction of insurance of widows and orphans at about s35, ,950, GOO of which s27,100,0O0 will come from contributions of employers and employed, and the balance of s6,S50,- GOO will come from imperial subsidy
 In the geological garden restaurant, narsonc can dino simu1ta n eoiISIv tl roof. Open air terraces for use in summer will accommodate another 10000 diners. There are 1000 walters and the kitchen staff exceeds 800.
 When the trial concluded of Captain Trenchand and Lieutepant Brandes the stwo British spies who were convicted and sentenced in connection with the Borkum incident it was generally antc- ipated that the period of their confine- ment in the fortresses to which they were sent would terminate before the coronation.
 This, if the gossip in the military clubs is correct, Is now assured, and it is believed that the recent visit of the kaiser has had very definite bearing on the question of the release of the of- ficers
 "A JOuTlldl dnIOu1CtS tue pTO- motion of Englands king to the rank of general field marshall, the highest rank in the Prussian army.
 The king has not hitherto held general rank in the Prussian army, though he is colonel-in-ch of two Prussian regi. rhents.
 The Kaiser holds the record as an owner of castles. Only as recently as last August he opened the splendid sand stone mansion which the Prussian gov ernment built for him at 'Posen. Polish Prussia. That-ma his fifty-eighth pal ace.
 Wilhelm has always had a weakness for residences. He has thirteen in Pots dam, alone, and others in various towns scattered over his empire.
 The one that was begun in 1905 at Posen and opened five years later was estimat- ed to have cost sl,25O,000 Not content with this addition to his many homes he bought in 1910 the Villa Achilleion, in Corfu, built for the late Empress of Aus. tJa.
 In May of the same year he had the famous mediaeval Hohkoenigshurg castle in Alsace, restored from it's ruins at cost of over sSOO00O Three months pre- l,;c odu,tripp SllhjectS re-