The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-10-27
War Quite a
Family Fight
Pittsburg Dispatch.

ent muddle as they did N the middle
ages, the confusion attendant on Eu-
ropes present crisis would be many
times more remarked. Nearly every
ruler in Europe is in some way en-
tangled with all the others through
family connections; and IL heredi-
tary descent had anything to do with
the problems Of the national align
ments, the mess would be beyond
solution.
Take England to begin with,
George V, present King, is the grand
son, on his rrther's side, of Chris
tian w, of Denmark. and the broth
er-in-law of Prince Charles Of Den
mark, who is Haakon VII, King OF
Norway. Thus far rne Norse-Eng-
lish ties are close.
But the late King, Edward VII,
left brother and two or three sis
ters who have helped complicate
England's royalty. Prince Arthur
(Duke OF Connaughu) married Prin-
cess Louise of Prussia, and their
daughter married the Swedish
Prince, Gustavus Adophus. Princess
Helena, eldest sister of the late
King, contracted an alliance with
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Hol-
stein, and their second daughter
married minor German Prince Of
Anhalt. And Princess Beatrice,
youngest sister of Edward, married
a son Of the Prince OF Hesse, from
which union was born Victoria Eu-
genie, the bride Of Alfonso XIII of
Spain.
England's international matri-
monial alliances are simple compar-
ed with those of the German en-
pire. The German empire is divided
into four kingdoms, six grand
duchies, five duchies, seven princi-
palities, three free towns and the
Reichsland OF Alsace-Lorraine-t
is, so many are represented in the
Bundestrat and the Reichstag. There
are numberless duchies and counties
which boast detached mobiles of all
divisions of the empire retain their
hereditary rulers, and these keep
up some sort of state of their own.
And each of these subdivisions of
the German empire has it's royal or
ducal family, forming all sorts of
alliances, not alone among the other
states of the Kaiser's dominion. but
among all the countries Of Europe.
Here are some of the alliances be-
tween the ruling families of German
states and other European countries.
serving to show the complications
which have set in:
Wilhelm III, German Emperor and
King of Prussia, is the son of the
Emperor Frederick III and Victoria,
Princess Royal of Great Britain.
Wilhelm married the Princess Vic
toria of Schleswig- -Holstein- Sender
burg-Augustenburg, which names
would seem to embrace the empire.
but in spite of their length really
mean only a small part.
The marriage of the Kaiser's sons
have been within the empire. with
princesses of German states. But
the kaiser's sister, Princess Sophie.
is married to Konstantin, Crown
Prince of Greece.
The intermarriages of the reign
Ing family of the kingdom of Bav-
aria have been almost altogether
with other German states and with
Austria. Hesse, besides that already
mentioned, possesses another bond
In common with England, for it's
relgnlng Grand Duke is the son OF
Princess Alice of Great Britain and
ireland. Two of the Grand Dukes
sisters made German marriages and
the other two Russian-one was
the wife OF the Russian Grand Duke
sergius Alexandrovitch and the 9th
er (the youngesD is the Czarina.
So the Grand Duchy of Hesse seems
to be fairly divided.
The sister of the Grand Duke OF
Baden is Queen Of Sweden.
The Duke of Cumberland is the
excluded heir to the regnancy of the
Duchy of Brunswick, because he will
not give up his claim to the throne
Of Hanover.
Denmark, whose affiliations we
saw were mainly Morse and English
is also represented In the German
royalties by the marriage of its
King Chriefiap v to =, u~t-