The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-16
Widow To Fight
 Will Leaving ]. Kaiser Fortune

Berlin, Aug. 16.-Emper William BilI not receive without a fight his in- Heritance of $750,000 from Hermann knorr, the patriotic wood-dealer of Rauschwitzs whose decease after be- aueathing to his Majesty practically his entire estate was reported last week
 The widow, who asserts that much of Knorr's wealth was due to success FuI reai-estate speculations financed by the money she brought to him as Der dowry, will contest the will, which assigns to her merely the amount of Of S2O0. All the rest of the estate goes to the Emperor, --to be used in Strengthening the army and nazy.' { First estimates gave the value of the estate at only $25O,0o0, the amount at which Knorr had been assessed for that a far larger amount had been covered up, to the incidental profit Of his royal residuary 1egatee. The widow, who after nineteen years of untroubled married life finds the pro visions of the will exceptionally hard, will be assisted in her fight by ten near and needy relatives of her hus- hand, who do not seem filled with en- thusiasm for Germany's armaments, of which representatives of the gov- ernment and the patriotic parties made so much in the recent debates in the Reichstag on the military bills!
 It will be interesting in this connec- ton to note whether the authorities will revise, in this case the decision handed down a few months ago in the case of a legacy to the city of Char lottenburg- There testator made the city his sole heir to a considerable property. In the course of the usual advertising for heirs prescribed as a condition precedent to the settlement of a decedent's estate, some distant cousins made their existence known. All were needy. The provincial gov ernment refused to consent to the city accepting the legacy, on the ground that the testator's relatives must be provided for.
 Emperor William has just present ed to the city of Emden two old rusty cannon. which recall an almost forgot ten chapter of Germany's colonial his tory and show that Germany was seeking it's place in the sum-, so far as African colonies are concerned, ov- CT two centuries before Agadir.
 The cannon were found on the site of an old fort, Gross Friedrichsburg. ion the Gold Coast of Africa which was built for the defence of the col ony established there by the Great Etector in 1888. His ambition was to make Brandenburg the nucleus of the future Kingdom of Prussia, a rival of England and Spain as a. colonizing power, and he sent out an expedition from Emden to establish a settlement on the west coast of Africa Emden had at that time one of the best har- 73ors on the North Sea, and the EIec-| tor decided to make it the home port of his colonial venture. as well as of hIs modest little navy
 x The undertaking, however did not prosper, and in 1717 Frederick Will liam l, the father of Frederick the Great, sold the colony to the Dutch East India. Company Of Amsterdam It finally fell into the hands of England through the Ashantee War. about 70 years ago. 9sE
 Although Emperor William is now retiring so many officers. in order to put younger men in control of the ar my. as he did some years ago. the problem of finding suitable positions for the retired mem is still a pressing one.
 Retirements usually occur when the officers ares still in their. best years and still able to give twenty or thirty years of their lives to civil ceilings. The new Minister of War has sent out a circular to the Chambers Of Com rnerce of Germany, asking their co operation in getting positions for the Terlreo oIIcerS- he cia1TnS TOT them special fitness for positions of trust and personal responsibility, and wher- ever ability to manage menss rather than commercial talent, is required.
 Expressions on the subject by com nnerciaI authorities indicate consider abfe doubt, in a general way, as to the. fitness of the officers for positions in commercial and industrial undertak- angz It is felt that most of them are too old to adapt themselves to the Gntrfed circumstances of business life, while the feeling of superiority, cher fshed so fondly by many army officers will make 1t difficult for them to work on a basis of fellowship with men trained entirely along civil lines.