The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-21
Crown Prince Proud of
 New Clothes While His
 People Are Suffering
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beautiful woman; in fact. she was the most beautiful of the Kaisers daught- ers-in-law. somewhat too stout.
 She talked English to me invariably until the war, but after that she spoke only German. She was constantly carping about the. way America was acting toward Germany, and she made such outrageous statements that I was led to remark upon one occasion: From the way you talk, princess, one would think that America actually started the war,'' She never spoke about America afterwards.
 She always seemed more or less in- terested in my child. and once, when she recognized the child in the Tiers garten she stopped and caressed her which made our nurse the envy of all her associates ever afterwards.
 I saw Prince August Wilhelm and his wife two days before I left Berlin. They were the last members of the royal family I saw. I didn't mention the fact that I was going away, be- cause I was afraid right up to the moment that I landed on Danish soil that something might be done to pre- vent my leaving.
 PRINCE JOACHIM
 Prince Joachim, the Kaisers young est son, and one of the last of she royal family to visit me, reminded me very much of his eldest brother, the crown prince He was tall and slender and would have been very good looking but for receding chin which was very pronounced. He had as little respect for public opinion as the crown prince and while the U-boat Deutschland was on it's way to America principally to bring back cargo of rubber, the sup ply of which was exhausted in Ger many. this sixth son of the Kaiser was driving around the country in q big car and using up enormous rubber tires, while rubber was worth it's weight in gold and many cars for the army were supplied with plain iron wheels.
 This prince was the only mems
 Der of the royal family fo get near
 enough to the firing line to get
 shot. The injury, which he re-
 ceived while at the eastern front,
 was only slight flesh wound of
 the thigh, but 1t was enough to
 stnrt him Hmping through history.
 It was such 2 superficial wound
 that it couldn't have caused hin,
 one-haIf as much pain as 1t gave
 the whole royal family pleasure.
 me iHct tn8t one or the h81ser'S
 own sons had actually been
 wounded and shed his royal blood
 in active scrvice-was something
 that the inspired press will never
 stop growing over. but by Just
 what accident the prince happened
 to come within range of the bullet
 has never been disclosed. Never-
 fheiess he received the iron cross
 of the first class, or, as some one
 hn rs ..f-~
 the incident remarked: "A first-
 class iron cross for a secOnd-cIass
 wound.
 Certain it is, as Mir. Gerard so clever ly pointed out at Carnegie Hall, the safest risk any insurance company could write at this time would be a policy on the lives of the Kaiser's six sons. and, he might have added, the Kaiser himself might be thrown in without adding much to the combined premium
 As he limped into my office. the young prince-he is now only r1kenty eisht-remarked: .See what one Of your damned American bullets did to mei's.
 iean bullet?" I asked.
 The Russians have nothing else.'
 How the Russians ever got a chance to reach him if he were even half as afraid of their bullets as he was of dental work, I can't conceive. All the time he was in my office he kept ner- voIsly twisting a front lock of hair.
 I tried to draw him out on political questions, but he showed no inclination to discuss them.
 T know nothing about politics. he ad- mitted. Tt would be better if a great many other people paid less attention to them He didn't impress me as knowing much about anything
 told him on one occasion that the people were complaining of the food shortage
 "They have food enough he answered. "The best thing they do is to complain. Don't they complain in America? The fact is they have too much to eat, any, :, way. They don't know what they want"
 PRINCESS VICTORIA LOUISE
 The Kaiser's only daughter, Princess Victoria Louise, was the first of her family to come to me outside of the Kaiser. Very peculiar rumors were cur rent about her when she was a girl, and they persisted right up to the time of her marriage. It was said variously that she had cleft palate; that she was tongue-ted; that she was a deaf mute; that she suffered from other phys teal deficiencies.
 was very much interested to find,