The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-02
KA|SER|N SUFFERS
FROM NERVOUSNESS.
Chickering's of Kaiser and
Crown Prince
GERMANS FEAR 1913
Downfall of Prussia This Year Fore
told-Unusual Number of Murders
Committed = Won Jagow's
Rise Due to His Wife
ny MALCOLM cLARKE

Kaiserin has not quite recovered from
her recent illness yet. The order issued
by the Emperor warning the German
aerial fleet against flying over Potsdam
Is entirely due to the fact that the noise
of the engines has nearly frightened
the life out of her. as it is put Owing
to the constant pickering and quarreling
that has been going ON between Kaiser
and Crown Prince, the Empress nerves
are still in bad way. Indeed on some
occasions she is quite as highly strung
and irritable as her nervous neighbor-
the Czarina. If the Kaiser would use a
little more diplomacy. and not adopt the
.Im King of the castle sort of attitude
the good work commenced by the recent
festivities might heal the breach between
father and son, but-well, everybody
knows the kaiser
Patriotic Germans are now reminding
each other with certain sense of misgv-
ing that the downfall of Prussia has
been foratold for the year 1918. The
prophecy is based singular manipu-
lation of figures which. now that 1913
is with us has acquired new interest. In
the year 1879 Prince William of Prlssia
destined later to be famous as the first
\ Emperor of the Hohenzolern dynasty,
but at that time merely the second son
of the reigning King, with no greater
the year 1929 Prince William of Prussia.
officer visited the famous Lenormand,
prophecies and reader of cards Prince
William had four questions TO ask of
fate. The first was when shall I
fight at the head of my army?' As an
swer the seeress commanded the young
Prince to add to the figures of the year
QS29) the four figures of which 1t was
composed Q-S-2-9). And so 1t was; IN
1919 Prince William, at the head of his
Prussian troops. was successful in put
ing down the dangerous rebellion which
lad burst out the year before in Baden
And when shall / end q great war as
conquerer?''- was the second question
Lenormand's answer was to set him the
same magic sum to solve QS49-1-S-4-9) In
1871 William marched into Paris at the
head of his DEATH once more the fatal
addition was gone through QS71-l-S-1-D-
1883, with a result which time proved as
true as the first two answers. The last
question was the most portentous of all:
what year will see Prussia's fall?' The
sorceress' answer was the same. And this
last piece of mysterious arithmetic brings
us o-(1SSS-1-8-S-S-1913).
An unusual number Of murders were
: one of the most mysterious characters is
reported from the memorial farm of Ring
enwald, which lies in a thinly inhabited
district some 30 miles east of Berlin.
About 4 o clock in the morning the hands
at the farm were reused by fire alarm
and 1t was found that a stack of straw
in an adjoining field was burning.
When the flames had been got under
control the bodies of a girl about Is and
man some four or five years older
s,.al he la1, Ia
had evidently met death by stranguation.
the rope being still tightly drawn about
the woman's neck. The bodies were much
burned, and it is supposed tina the rope
with which the man had been killed was
consumed by fire.
Investigation showed that about $3.50
O'Clock a conveyance drawn by two
horses was seen driving furiously towards
Ringenwald and that some 20 minutes
later 1t observed returning along
the same route with equal haste
The person who noticed it assumed that
it to convey to the railway station
which is considerable distance away.
some inmate of the farm, but it is now
believed that 1t contained the bodies OF
the two murdered victims, and that after
they had been placed among the straw
the stack was ignted and in the hopes
that the fire would destroy all means of
Identification.
Suspicion points to one of the wealth
lest noble of Orpwig the perpetrator
of the crime. The girl is believed to be
the daughter of the noble.
More to the brilliance of his undoubt-
ledly clever wife. who Is connected by
marriage with several influential Ameri-
can families. than to his own undoubted
talents is said to be due Her Won Jag
ows accession TO the post of German inn
perial foreign Secretary. Won Jagow is
in his fftieth year. has not had much
foreign experience and Is not very well
known here. He was at Rome an
attacbe, as second secretary and aft
erwards for some years as first sec
retary. lie served for short periods at
Munich, Hamburg. and The Hague spen.
a ycar-199G to 1901 in the political de-
partment Of the foreign offices and wa >
then minister at Llxemburg for Il
months before Prince Bulow in May, 1900
sent him as smba ssatlor to Rome. He is
regarded as enjoying the confidence of
the emperor, as having been on excellent
terms with the late Herr Won Kiderlen-
Waechter, and as possessing a sufficient
knowledge OF circumstances here, and
Especially OF the German press. The rest
Is speculation and press comment is col !
pred chiefly ~ otherwise unsupported !
differences from the fact that Herr Von |
Jagow comes .of an old Prussian family |
belonged to. the aristocratic corps of Bo- |
russen when he was student at Bonn, |
ana peflofiHeu 41S HHItdTy SERVICE III tnc |
Zethen Hussars.
Considering ESPECIALLY the slghtness OF
his previous experience and the rapid |
hy of his advancement. Herr Won ia |
COWS appointment is remarkable.
dispatch which has been received |
from Advent Stotxbergen gives rather |
4 gloomy accoujat of the fortunes of /
Lieutenant Shroder-Etranz Arctic ex-
pedition The leader himself left on a /
sledge journey on August IS and since |
then nothing has been heard of him /
and his two coupsnions
on September .. the remainder of /
the ships company left Herzog Ernst. I
which frozen up in Treurenburg /
Bay, and attempted to reach Advent L
Bay on foot At Wyde Bay Doctor |,
Rudger the oceanoerap pher, had to be /
left behind in shelter hut. as his foot 4
was frozen. md he. could not continue I
the journey. Hc has provisions which
will last him till the end of this month. II
Captain Ritchei and the others de-
cided to push on for relief but in con- II
sequence of the darkness of the polar
night and the adverse weather, they Il
were compellei - remain in shelter 4
hut at Cape Pefern,enp until the mid Il
die of Decenlb<h All the time they
suffered great privation.
On December 10 ne partt broke uD, L