The sun., 1919-04-06

headed by ex-Emperor Charles. their
private property was very large in
deed, comprising mines. factories, dis
tilleries and all sorts of industrial
and commercial undertakings. But
they were abominably mismanagcd
throughout the greater part of the
reign Of Emperor Francis Joseph by
his cousin the late Archduke Joseph,
who died a bankrupt, leaving the prl-
vate estates and investments of the
reigning house of Austria Hungary
II. terrible confusion.
After his demise a certain amount
of order was restored in their admin
istration. But although the revolu-
tionary Governments that have sue
ceeded one another at Vienna and at
Budapest undertook to assure to the
ex- Emperor and to the ArChdukes and
Archduchesses Of his house the pro-
lection and the possession OF their
private fortunes MS distinct from the
property of the crown, they have. tenn
porartly at any rate, sequestrated their
private property under the preteXt of
recouping the two countries, namely.
Austria and Hungary, for immense
sums asserted to have been illegally
obtained by the ex-Emperor and by
the other members of the Hapsburg
dynasty from the national treasures.
King Williams Fortunes.
King William of Wuerttcmberg. of
all the enemy monarchs the one most
popular among his own people, has
| been assured Of the possession OF the
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includes the leading hotel and tho
principal restaurant In Stuttgart. But
at Munich, where a very advanced
group OF Socialists is in power, the
private property OF the house of Wit
telsbach, including the celebrated
court breweries (Hof- BrauereD, have
| been confscated, and for the present
at any rate the septuagenarian King
! and the Princes and Princesses of his
family are virtually penniless. So too
Is the King OF Saxony, whose private
| property has been seized and who
has been until now unable to convert
into cash his large estates in Prus-
sian Silesia.
| But the rulers who are worst off in
this connection are those minor Ger
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| pendent upon their civil list from the
| national treasury, and upon the reve-
| nues derived from the crown proper
ties, the Inter having been Confis-
Gated and the payment TO the former
suspended. Indeed, the ex Ora ndduke
Of Oldenburg has appealed 10 the revo-
| iutionary government in his former
dominions. declaring that he is en-
| tirely destitute and begging for as
sistance. while the ex-Grandduke OF
! Hesse and the Duke OF Sake Meinin-
gen are equally poverty stricken.
Clean sweep in Russia.
In Russia every vestige Of the
crown possessions and private prop.
erty OF the imperial house Of
Romanof has been seized by the
revolutionists of one brand or an.
other and those OF the members Of
the dynasty who have survived tor,
ture and massacre are dependent upor
assistance from foreign relatives, G
case in point being that OF Archduk,
Michael MichaelaiovitCh, who for
merly deriving very large revenues
from his immense estates in Russia
has now nothing left beyond the sal
AIRY of $4,000 n year paid TO him a.
expert assistant for Russian affairs a
the British War Department in White
hall.
King Alfonso, like his mother
Queen Christina, keeps most OF his
private fortune in England, bankins
with Coutts. on the Strand in London
During the regency OF Queen Chris
tina. the Carlists on ono occasion
chloroforned one OF her royal mes.
sengers, between Irun and Madrid, OF
his way back from London, where
he had been to make some deposit:
and investments in her behalf. They
robbed him Of the record Of these
transactions and likewise Of her pass
book, and then published the con
tents, with the object of arousing pub
lie opinion against her in spain o.
claiming that she had so little conn
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