The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-12


 Therefore I shaped up to Prince Oscar again.
 Here's first blow for England" I said; and got one in on his cheek, a good deal harder than I usually struck in an instruction bout.
 That got a laugh from the Crown Prince; but it was not a hearty, genu- inc laugh. It was a sort of useless guffaw; much the same noise as 1 have heard the Kaiser make when he wished to signify that he was anus ed. The Kaiser and his sons seemed to laugh xvi deeficulty;" all except Prince Albert, the sailor son.
 I passed off the Crown Princes threat of war as a jest, but a few days later I altered my opinion.
 By that time Germany had backed down from the aggressive attitude as sumed over the Agadir affair, and the Crown Prince showed his disgust in fashion which has passed into historical episode.
 Everybody will remember that he went to the meeting of the Reichstag at which Bethmann-Ho1lweg explain ed why Germany had knocked under, and made a terrible exhibition of | himself. He was quite drunk, and cheered when Won Heydebrand, the "uncrowned King of Prussia" deliv- cred an angry attack upon the Chan cellor, and incidentally upon the Kaiser as well.
 | For that conduct the Crown Prince fell into sad disgrace. He was sent off to Dantzic, and we saw very lit tie of him at Potsdam thereafter. This incident is, of course. a frag- ment of history; but I refer to it as showing what was in his mind when he gave me that personal warning only a few days before in the gym nasium at Kabinettshaus. I have of ten wished somebody would have giv- en me a similar warning in July, 1914; might have got out of Germany without leaving all possessed in the world behind me.
 Prince Oscar always frowned up- on any reference to a possible row between England and Germany; at least he did so in my presence. He Twas always scrupu1ously considerate of my feelings; but also he was sup
  land.
 It was this alleged leaning of the Prince toward England which inspir- ed one testing instruction the Kaiser gave me on an occasion when he had stopped to question me about the pro- gress of my Royal pupils.
 I reported that Prince Oscar had reached a stage of boxing proficien- cy which kept me on my guard wheI sparring with him, and the Kaiser said:
 q hope you do not spare him; hi him hard, MT. Slim, whenever yov can. wish him to be hardened" I pointed out that I might mark the Princes face in an unpleasant fashion, but the Emperor waved the objection aside, and guffawed: Make his nose bleed. It will bt good if you let some of the Englisl blood out of him.
 : One more experience of the Kaisel in those days I must recall, for it il ! 1ustrated to me the disdain in whicl
 he held the mob of Berlin. Afte
 Agadir he was thoroughly unpopular
 and the extreme Socialists took ad vantage of the circumstance to dem
 instrate with a good deal of audacity They gathered in crowds around tn :" Berliner Schloss, waving red flags
 and calling upon the Kaiser to com
 out and be killed.
 , I was present in the mob one night
 and heard their wild talk. I had als
 the experience of being charged b : the mounted police, who were power C less to diSperse the crowd because n the low iron railings which fence all the paths of the Tiergarten, whe O the mob was gathered. These woul
 bring their horses down. if they trie . to, follow the people off the paths < but they were wise enough not to at tempt it..