Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-26
engagements
ARE VERY SHORT
HOUSE OF HoHENZoLLERN
DOES NOT BELIEVE IN
LONG AFFAIRS.
WEDDINGS ARE IN SIGHT
Empress Secured Imperial Sane
ton to . Marriage Form.
erly Forbidden.

Berlin, June 25.-The fact that Ho
h~enzollern princes have never been
given to long engagements leads an
interested public to believe the mar
riage Of Emperor Williams fifth son,
Prince Oskar, to the Countess Ina
Marie Won Bassewitz-L evetz0w will
be celebrated shortly. No date, how
ever, has yet been set. The engage
ment was announced, as rported by
cable, on May 26, to the surprise OF
Berlin society, since it means q NOR
ganatic marriage, contrary to the ira
ditiOns of the HohenZollern family.
There are plenty Of instances where
that tradition was broken, but this
will be the first time in sixty years
that any of the H~ehenzollerns have
married beneath their rank. King
Frederick William III himself did SO
in 1924 when he married the Countess
Harrach after the death Of his first
wife. Prince Adalbert, nephew OF
Frederick William w, did SO when
he married the Viennese dancer,
Therese Esler. Another and the lat
est instance is that of Prince Al
brecht, brother of Frederick William
Nv, who married a Fraudein Won
Rauch, daughter Of a former minister
of war, In 1853
The Empress Is widely credited for
obtaining the Imperial sanction of
Prince Oskar's intention to marry the
Countess Ina, for she believed 1t to
be a true love match. She knew the
young woman we'll, for she had serv.
ed as her maid Of honor until 1913,
when the close attachment between
her and the Prince is said to have re-
suited in her resignation of service.
She Is described as till and graceful,
beautiful and Of a sunny temper.
While her rank ID that Of lower no.
bility, her family lineage has been
traced back as far as 1854 to one
Bernhardus de Bassewicze, and the
title Of Count dates from 1926. She
undoubtedly will win some title when
in-law.
She may make her husband a large
landowner, as her father, Count Karl
o Bassevicz-Levetzow, owns six
large estates in Mecklenburg and
Prussia He has for years occupied q
prominent position in Mecklenburg
society and politics and has been
minister president of the little state.
Prince Cskar has had the training
Of typical iPrussian officer. The
Emperor did not send him to uni
versity, as he did all the other prjn-
cess, except Adalbert, who is the sea.
man Of the family. Although Oskar's
general education has zen compare
lively neglected, he is described as q
man Of much shrewdn oss and of a
quick intelligence. He is a captain
in one of the foot-guard regiments at
Berlin and at the same time Is hear
ing lectures at the War Academy
with q view to acquiring a training in
the higher military science in which
he takes a deep interest. People who
know Oskar best predict that he will
be heard from in any future wal Ger
many may have. He will be twenty
six years old in July, while his bride
is just q half year older. She enjoys
the double distinction not only of hav-
ing been born in the year when the
Emperor assembled the throne, but on
his birthday, January q.
Too many university students is
the odd complaint being voiced in
both Germany and Austria.
The trouble in Berlin and Germany
az a whole concerns the emdical stu
dents mainly. The flood of them has
grown 50 rapidly that the ministry Of
education is puzzling over some way
to lessen it. Two or three remedies
have been proposed, n of which is
to limit the number Of foreign stu
dents at each university. This would
be an extension of rules promulgated
a year ago. A large increase in en-.
trance and tuition fees, and a raising
of the standards of admission have
also been suggested. The recent on
tentions between physicians on the
one side and state insurance boards
on the other have shown how over
crowded the medical profession In
Germany is.
In Austria, the complaint is general.
The Associated Press correspondent
at Vienna reports that Professor
Wettstein, rector of the University of
Vienna, in a recent appeal to the Aus
TRAN Diet for funds for a students
home, declared that scores of students
were living under suCl conditions Of
poverty that they were half starved
and sometimes without shelter. In