The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-13
Court Gossip of Interesting
Epents on Two Continents
,Copyrisbt. 1913. By A. d. Jacotsoa.

Copyright 1913. by A. d. Jacotson.i
The Judgment of the Court of Appeals
of Brussels in the suit of the Princesses
Louise and Stephanie Countess LonyaO
bars further proceedings. They are also
saddled with the costs, which must be
heavy The Princess CIementine. wife Of
Prince Victor Napoleon, had the prudence
not TO join in the suit, This saves her
from bearing any of the expense OF the
litigation. Had her sisters won she would
have won with them, free of the law
court charges, a third of the big sum
they clamed-70. 0Oc.C00 francs, with ac-
rued interest that brought it up to near
ly 100000 francs The Judgment must
sap the Bonapartist campaign which has
| been going on in papers subventiored
from Belgium and engaged in the Lib
ersr' ''appcasement' and Bonapartist
agitation.
The tribunal refusing TO deal as in
competent with the Niederfulbach foun-
dation, apprised at 30000,000 francs, the
Baroness Vaughan still holds her posi-
ton as its boss" She really is every
thing in this curious creation of Leo
poid H. a creation meant to obviate
those paragraphs of the civil code re-
stricting the powers of fathers to dis
inherit their children. She would even
Independently of the Niederfulbach foun-
dation. roll in riches. Her second suit
against her present husband. Mr.. Du-
rieux, is pending. The tribunal that will
deal with it, may or may not, If it
sees cause for divorce, give her the
guardianship of the young Due de Ter
vueren and Comte de Ravensberg titles
conferred on them by their father. the
IL
Durieux remaining in law their father,
ne having with every legal formality
recognized them as his sons when he
| married the Baroness.
Princess Louise is in debt to the
amount of 100000 francs. Two
| thirds of this sum is due in France.
IL the Belgian state should think the
duty of providing for her a family af-
| fair, her daughter. the Duchess Ernst
Guenther, of Schleswig- the
King of the Belgians. and her two sis
| ters, both rich. might between them
create fund sufficient to maintain her
| with some appearance of royal dignity.
Her son-in law, Duke Ernst Guenther.
ranks among the great landlords of
SiIesia and Is brother of the German
Empress. He has no son, and his heir
presumptive is Prince Albert Johann
| a Prussian officer, though born at
| Windsor and a grandson of Queen Vic
| toria
| The Princess Victor Napoleon has Sc
/ cured between three and four hundred
thousand pounds out of the paternal
fortune At any rate. she is able to
stimulate the zeal of Partisan papers.
working for a syndicate of Bonapartist
agitators.
| The Countess Lonyay (widow of the
! Inflated Crown Prince Rudolph Of
Austria) has a rich hus band and a snug
| pension from the Emperor of Austria,
and the fortune of the King of the
| Belgians places him almost on foot
| ing of equality in wealth with his
neighbor. the Queen of the Neither
/ lands
| There being no longer Imprisonment
for debt in france, the princess can
not be sent TO Clchy prison by her
creditors Nor can she be charged
with swindling. as they knew. well
as she did, her exact pecuniary situa-
1 ton. and they believed less than she
did in the possibility of the success of
| her suits against the Belgian state.
| 1t would be interesting to know all that
| has happened behind the diplomatic
scenes in respect to Rumania's demand
| that Bulgaria shall give UP her eighty
miles or so of coastline on the Black Sea,
including the ports of Narna. Burghas.
land Shebolu.
! Rumania now p ssessss only river
| leet of little value. and some months ago
| a subscription list was opened for ma
ttional sea fleet. Rumania, with an ex-
itention of it's coastline. means to pur-
chase battleships to balance the Russian
| naval force in the Black Sea.
| Whatever may be Rumsnia s future re-
lations with Russia, it is significant, as
| well-accredited diplomat tells me, that
/ the Rumanian government has set aside