The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-30
He Long Has Been Estranged
From Family on Account
of Marriages.
ny La AARouIsI DIE FoNTENoY.

IN IKE LUDWIG OF BAVARIA.
eighty-two years OF age, who
has just filed suit for
divorce at Munich against his ac-
tress wife. Antonio Batta, who was
ennobled as Frau Won Bartolf. on the
occasion OF her morganatic marriage
to him twenty-one years ago. is the eld-
EFT brother of the late Empress of Aus
tria. of the widowed Queen of Naples,
and OF the widowed Princess MathiIde
of Bourbon. Countess OF Trani This Is
his second morganatic marriage He
contracted the first one as far back as
| on May Is, 1859. when ne married an
otner 1ootltght favorite. Henrietta Men
del. who. several months previously
namely. on November "a. 1s5S-had pre-
sented him with an illegitimate daugh-
ter-their only child. Before contract
ing this first morganatic marriage.
Duke Louis was compelled to resign
MS rights and prerogatives as chief
| or the ducal and nonreignng branch Of
the sovereign house of Bavaria. as we'll
as the control OF the family property.
to his younger brother. the late Duke
| Charles Theodore. so widely and de-
servedly celebrated as an oculst
Duke Louis has, by reason Of his two
| mesalliances, been always more or less
| estranged from his royal and imperial
relatives Apparently In his old age
| he feels the need of more sympathetic
companionship than that to which he
has been restricted among the kinsfolk
and friends Of his actress wife. The
sovereign family of Bavaria, however.
| regret the divorce Devout adherents
of the Roman Catholic Church, they
regard divorce with aversion. and as
subject OF scandal
| Count Louis di Robilant whose mar
riage took place last week at Venice.
| to the daughter of Countess Morosini,
so famous for her beauty and for the
historic interest OF her grand old pal
ace. which Is ono of the landmarks of
the Queen of the Adriatic is the sailor
| son of that General Count Charles Rob
liant who for so many years represent
| ed Italy as ambassador at Vienna,
| where he was wont TO attract attention
by the empty sleeve of his uniform.
| having lost his left arm at the battle
| of Novara. While there he married q
| daughter of the Austrian princely
house OF Clary- Aldringen. who has sur
vived him. and who makes her home
| at Turin.
The old general was generally under
stood to be natural son of King
Charles Albert OF Sardinia, and half
| brother. therefore, of the late King
| Victor Emmanuel. This was by no
means the only strain OF royal blood
in the veins of the general. For his
|
| King Charles Albert, was herself n
| daughter of Princess Antonio OF Hohen-
roller -Hechingen. and of the Prussian
| general Ind ambassador. Count Louis
| Waldburg, OF the now extinct Capusti-
gale branch of that mediatized or for
merly petty sovereign German dynasty.
| The Morosinis are among the most
| Intimate of the nonroyal friends of the
| Kaiser, who never fails, when passing
through Venice. on his way to Rome,
/ In n~ft 70 r,,ie ~, FL
ranoar. to stay over a Venice in order
to lunch or dine with the countess
The house OF Morosini has figured in
history ever since the tenth century,
and has furnished Venice with hume
rous Doges. statesmen. generals and
admirals. Domenico Morosini having
been elected Doge in 1149: the best
known OF all the Morosni Doges being
undoubtedly Don Francesca who was
| enc Of the greatest commanders of his
! time, being invested by his countrymen
with the surname Of Peloponnesiaco,
for his success in driving the Turks
out of Peloponnesus and Athens.
| Sir John Lister Kaye, whose wife
was Miss Natica Yznaga, of New York.
younger sister of the late Consuelo,
! Duchess of Manchester. has Jared bad
| ~ at the hands of the parliamentary
commission OF inquiry into the Putu-
| mayo rubber atrocities. which exceeded
in almost incredible and fiendish bar
| barity the horrors of the Congo FREQ
State under the late King Leopolds
| rule. The guilt of the Peruvian ANA
zon Rubber Company in the matter
las been established. and while Sir
John has been relieved OF any direct
! share therein. he is censured by the
finding of the commission for taking n
dictatorship in the company, with no
knowledge OF the country, OF the con-
ditions. or of the trade In which 1t was
engaged. and ignorant even of the Ian
guage in which the proceedings of the
board OF which he was n member, were
usually conducted. FIe is condemned
for holding dictatorship under con-
ditions so humiliating. and for per-
hitting his name to be used as an in
ducement to attract investors into q
company Of whose business and pro-
ceedings he knew nothing at ALL
at the outset of the parliamentary
inquiry, Sir Edward Grey, the Score
tnry of State for Foreign Affairs, de-
clared In the House of Commons that
made public by the government with
tho object Of holding them up to pop
ular reprobation, and during the course
OF the investigation Sir John Lister
Kaye was compelled to admit that he
was about the only member Of King
Edwards household who had not been
reappointed. either in an actual or In an
honorary capacity by King George, on
his accession In 1910.
King Georges attitude in the mat
ter VIII be understood when 1t Is ex-
planned that as far back as in 1909 an
exposure Of tho shocking state OF af-
fairs In the Putumayo district was in
augurated by the late Henry Labou-
chere In London TRUTH who placed