Evening star., 1914-09-24
Crown Princes Conduct.

size and Importance Of the states over
which they rule.
Crown Princes Conduct.
Many of the men and officers return
ing from India to face the Germans
will have personal recollections of the
extraordinary behavior of the crown
prince of Prussia when he visited the
Indian empire a few years ago. His
overweening conduct-impudence is
not too strengths incivility and the
way his staff gave people to under
stand that Germany would take India
over at some date not distant. made all
India gossip, and though studied in
suits were kept out of the press. they
will be remembered in the firing line.
The crown prince was received with
the honors due to an heir apparent and
the suite appointed to go about with
him. but his careless levity was so ex-
traordinary that the suite scarcely
knew how to comport itself.
On one occasion, when a big ball had
been arranged by lieutenant govern
or. and when elementary etiquette de-
manded that the prince should invite
the lieutenant governors wife ana
daughters TO dance, he did nothing or
the sort. The trouble that night reach
ed Il climax when the crown prince. his
equerries and 4 couple OF the prince s :
partners We're found to have gone OIL
on long motor drive during the late
hours of the ball. On another occasion
the heir to the German throne entirely
disappeared for some twenty-four
hours, and the scandal and confusion
resulting from this final freak were
unparalleled.
Germans Claim on India.
The professors and publicists who
preached the doctrine Of Germany's 8
right to a place in the sun and q
world empire have inoculated many
others than the crown prince with the
idea that Germany has a strong mans
claim to India, which the degenerate
English race would soon have to leave
The great share German houses TOOK
in India's piece goods and hlde traoes
and the fact that German universities
have more schools of research into
Indian languages than English ones
both seemed to them to be reasons JUS
tifying such conclusion. German
study of Indian languages has certain
ly had a commercial. If not a political.
end in view. and there have been whis-
pers of German attempts to tamper
with Indian feudatory princes.
The last month has shown how com
have disregarded the German appeal.
That treaty of peace dreamed Of by
German political prophets, by Which
England was to hand over India as
going concern. give south AFRICA 10
the Beers under German patronage,
promise $5,O00.000 900 indemnity and
hand over the Isle of Wight as pledge
of its payment-that treaty is not like
ly to be signed after this war.
Belgian Refugees in London.
Refugees from Belgium are still
pouring into London at the average
rate of 800 a day. On some days the
number is much larger. For instance
last night a party of over 400 reached
Charing Cross from the ravAged town
of Malines. The workers of the war
refugees committee We're waiting for
them with a band Of interpreters, and
within an hour or so they had all been
put in buses and whirled away. to the
institutions set aside by the local gov
ernment board as temporary hostels.
The Beleians in London belong to all
the social levels. from men who a
month ago were rich bankers and mer-
chants to peasants and workpeople VINO
have lost everything.
Many have found their own way 10
London and do not need more than
help. but the majority were
people quite without resources.
There has been an extremely generous
and what Is chiefly wanted now are
offers to lodge whole families People
who can speak French or Flemish are
particularly valued as hosts. Yesterday
afternoon in the big room in the Ald-
wych offices, where the efficient volun-
tary helpers are always busy inter-
viewing sad-faced men and women,
there was a little group of priests from
Malines, and they seemed the calmest
people there. At present little Is pc
ing done in the way of finding employ
ment, although register is being Kept
of offers to take workers. About
thousand Belgian peasants are now
working in the hop fields Of Kent.
Friars Clasp Books.
The first refugees to land from the
boat train yesterday were two tall and
serene Franciscan friars. Their sole
luggage was the sacred books which
they held tightly clasped. Exile and
penury had no terrors for them, but 1t
was otherwise with the families that
came pouring out of the train and en-
camped themselves among the brown
paper parcels and things tied in blan-
kets which constituted their possess
sions.
The tragic foriornness of these folk
was complete, and the neat, clothes OF
some, their air of desperate respecta-
bility only accentuated 1t. Some had
not even escaped with clothing. for
there was man from panic-strfcken
village who wore only an oVercoat over
his night clothes.
The business of welcoming the refu-
gees at the stations is by now highly
organized, and the platform was like
one of the offices of A relief fund at q
busy hour. Women with badges were
running about among the groups, in
terpreters were trying to get them to
talk, others offered food and drink
AT Folkestone. where all the foreign
ers land, queer scenes are witnessed,
for they do not all come to London. My
daughter. who is at present there,
writes: THE streets are filled with all
sorts and degrees of foreigners, rich.
poor and well-to-do, and such a babel
of languages you never heard. Signs
and proclamations in French are post
ed all over the town and nothing Eng