Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-27
BURDENS WEIGHING
HEAVILY ON KAISER
During Past Eleven Months He
Has Grown Twenty
Years Old.
GREAT PERSONAL SORROW
He Realizes That Crown Prince
Is Not Fit to Succeed
to Throne.
GREAT PERSONAL SORROW
BIZ FREDERICK WERNER.

BERLIN, June 26.-I doubt il many
Berliners would recognize the Kaiser
now IL they were TO meet him uncx-
nc has greatly changed since last sum
mer saw him mounting the steps
OF his palace the other day and was
much impressed by the change.
In eleven months tho Kaiser has
grown twenty years older He walks
with his head bowed forward. he who
year ago was as straight as any
officer In his famous Guards; his hair
tache. though IL bristles as ferceIy as
before
II is said that he greatly feels the
heavy responsibility resting on him.
particularly because Of the dreadful
loss Of life. Although no casualty lists
have been published for some time.
everybody knows that the losses SUI
fered during last months campaign in
Gal!cia and Poland must have been an
palling.
CRUELTY DISAPPOINTED
IN THE GROWN FRINGE
To the burdens of the Kaiser comes
also the burden OF sorrow he has TO
carry as man. Although nothinr, Is
said in public, OF course, il is wfis-
pered everywhere that he Is cruelty dis
appointed In the crown prince, who, he
realizes, liz absolutely UNIT TO become
his successor
Nobody really knows where the
crown princess is. although It has been
supposed that she spent some time
with her sister, the Queen OF Denmark,
but II is generally feared that & royal
divorce is inevitable 1t is said that
even the kaiscrin sympathizcs with
her daughter-in-law. although she will,
OF course, cndeavor 20 persuade her TO
fulfill her duties 10 the state, no matter
how great sacrifice this means.
II the crown princess. however. has
Inherited the headstro character OF
her Russian mother. 1t is feared she
VIII not give in. the more so as her
marriage was the result of genuine love
OF her reckless and impetuous husband,
whose prohisate tendencies DEVELOPED
only later.
AT time like the present. when the
entire German nation stands shoulder
to shoulder against world OF enemies.
II sounds incredible that the proud
and naughty caste, who are to blame
for all the calamitics that have befallcn
the country. have lost nothing of their
boorish and overbcaring manners, but
still this is so.
Several papers state that at various
health resorts. where the idlcrs OF
the Junkcr ilk, have congreGated TO feel
the effects OF the war as little
as possible. responsibility, which they
Ina ginc themselves to represent exclu-
sively. shifts and draws her skirts to-
gethcr when the offensive hospital
clothing of tho German wounded sol
diers Is seen In the pumproom, on the
terrace. or at the concert.
MANAGERS TAKE ALARM
AND PEOPLE ARE ENRAGED
Managers have taken alarm. The
Cologne Gazette has denounced this un-
hailowed spirit, and the Tacgliche
Rundschau has been asked to pillory
those who are thus guilty of dishonor-
ing the proud garment of the men who
have bled for Germany
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of Ballcn-
stadt. in the Hartz, is reported to have
taken offensc at the exclusion of sew
enty or eighty wounded, who were in
the sanatorium of DR. Resell. from the
grounds of the sanatorium and the sur
rounding wood He complained to the
military authorities. but, being inter
rogated by the Taegliche Rundschau on
the telephone, confessed that he found
the hospital clothing objectionable
Wiesbaden is not free from the spirit
of dislike for wounds and the marks
of the hospital. The chief surgeon OF
a hospital there. where there are $50
sick, writes that the hearts OF the
good and modest soldiers, who bear
their honorable scars without vain
glory. are troubled to witness such
things and suffer such treatment as is
described.
The Taegliche Rundschau declares
that foul commercialdom is the cause
of the hateful growth OF these mani
festations, and hopes that general
sentiment of public detestation will