The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27
KAISER HAS AGED 20 YEARS IN Il MONTHS Hair and MOustache Are
 Almost White WHISPER OF SCANDAL Report That Divorce Is Imminent Be tween Crown Prince and His Wife.
 Even the kaiserin Sympa-
 thizes With the Latter
WHISPER OF SCANDAL
By FREDERICK WERNER

Berlin. June 26.-(Specal)-I doubt if many Berliners would recognize the Kais- CT now if they were to meet him un- expectedy, and in citizens clothes, for he has greatly changed since last summer. l saw him mounting the steps of his pal ace the other day and was much im- pressed by the change
 In Ii months the Kaiser has grown 20 years older He walks with his head bowed forward. he who a,year ago was as straight as any officer in his famous guards, his hair is almost white as is also his moustache, though 1t bristles as fercely as before.
 It is said that he greatly feels the heavy responsibility resting on him, particularly because of the dreadful loss of life AL though no casualty lists have been pub lished for sometime everybody knows that the losses suffered during last months campaign in Galicia and Poland must have been appalling.
 To the burdens of the Kaiser comes also the burden of sorrow he has to carry as a man. Although nothing is said in pub lio, of course, it Is whispered everywhere that he is cruelty disappointed in the crown prince. who he realizes is absolutely unfit to become his successor
 Nobody really knows where the crown princess is, although it has been supposed that she spent sometime with her sister, the Queen of Denmark, but 1t is gener- ally feared that a royal divorce is in- evitable. It is said that even the Kaiserin sympathizes with her daughter-in-law, although she wall of course endeavor to persuade her to fulfill her duties to the state no matter how great a sacrifice this means
 If the crown princess however has in- herited the hesdstrong character of her Russian mother, it is feared she will not give in the more so as her marriage was the result of genuine love of her reck- less and impetuoue husband. whose profii- gate tendencies developed only later.
 Dislike the Wounded
 At a time like tshe present when the entire German nation stands shoulder to shoulder against the world of enemies 1t sounds increditatGe that the proud and naughty caste who are to blame for all the calamities tisat have befalen the country, have loss nothing of their boor- ish and overbearinS manners, but still this Is so
 Several papers state that at various health resorts where the idlers of the Junker ilk have congregated to feel the effects of the war as little possible, responsibility which tiley imagine them selves to represent exclusively. sniffs and draws her skirts toset ther when the of fensive hospital clothing of the German wounded soldiers is seen in the pump room, on the terrace,4 or at the concert.
 Managers have taken alarm. The Cologne Gazette has denounced this unhallowed spirit. and the ''Taegliche Rundschau' has been asked to pillory those who are thus gglilty of dishonoring the proud garment of the tmen who have bleG for Germany.
 The OberbuergermesteTe of Balenstadt in the Hartz is reported to have taken offense at the exclusion of 70 or 30 wounded who were in the sanatorium of Dr. Resell. from the grounds of the sana- torium and the surrounding wood. He complained 10 the military authorities, but being interrogated by the "Taegliche Rundschau," on the telephone. confessed that he found the hospital clothing ob- jectonable.
 Wiesbaden is not free from the spirit of dislike for wounds and the marks of the hospital, The chief surgeon, of a hos pital there where there are 650 sick, writes that the hearts Of the good and modest soldiers. who bear their honor able sears without tn glory are'troubled