The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-05
TRAITOR DUKES
 OF CIR. BRITAIN

Copyright, 1913, By The Interna-
 tiona1 News Bureau, Inc.)
 (Four and a, half years too late
 the names of the Duke of Albany,
 the Duke of Cumberland, and
 TeviotdaIe, the Duke of Bruns-
 wick, the ex-Kaiser's son-in-law,
 and Henry Viscount Taaffe of
 Corren, and Baron of Ballymote
 have been struck off the list of
 British Peers.
 Notwithstanding the repeated
 public demands for the excision
 of the names of those Dukes who
 have betrayed their titles of
 British blood during the war, and
 abetted or acquiesced in the
 crimes against humanity of which
 the Germans were guilty, there
 has been evinced on the part of
 the authorities an extraordinary
 reluctance to deal with these
 traitorous Dukes as enemies of
 the country, and the question of
 removing them from the roll of
 Peers has been repeatedly post
 poned and shelved.)
 By Nazar1ene Daan kannibelle.-
 His Royal FooIishness Two Faced Albany
 That is how the Duke of Saxe- Coburg-Gotha, one of the traitor Dukes. who played in war was de- scribed by his school chums when he was a boy at Eton.
 The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is the son of Queen Victoria's youngest son, and that he should forget his percentage and the boyhood he spent amidst British scenes and the land of his British playmates to take up arms against the land of his birth provides one of the blackest chapters in his ignominious career.
 The Duke of Albany, as he was known when he was at Eton, was born at Claremont, in Surrey, on July 19, 1884, four months after the death of his father, Prince Leopoud. His mother, well known in England as the Duchess of Albany, was Princess Helena of Waldeck-Pyrmont, sister of the Dowager Queen of Taoland.
 In due course the young Duke was sent to Eton, where he began to dis play some of those characteristics which marked his later life. He was a pale-faced boy, who took little in terest in the healthy recreations of his playmates at school, and on ac- count of his snobbish tendencies was heartily disliked by everybody. In fact, on one occa sion he was severely kicked by another boy for his prig- gishness.
 The Dukes life at Eton, however, was brought to a. dramatic finish. At the early age of 15 he was suddenly called to renounce his nationality and become German. It arose through the unexpected death of the ruler of Sake e-Coburg-Gotha. There was no direct heir, and the succession rested between the Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, Prince Arthur of Connaught. and Duke of Albany.
 How He Became a Prussian.
 The first named promptly inti- mated to his mother, Queen Victoria, that in no circumstances would he change his nationality, as he pre- ferred being a. British prince to ruling a. German state. Prince Arthur and Duke of Albany were therefore, left and, of course, Prince Arthur would not entertain for a moment the ques- tion of accepting the rule of a Ger man ruler. The succession to the e-Coburg-Gotha duchy was then accepted by the Duke of Albany.
 His Royal Highness proved unex- pectedly amenable to the process of being, turned into a Hun in the Prus- sian factory of Berlin.
 He had, of course, to be interview ed by the ex-Kaiser. In the Berlin Schloss the ex-Emperor, dressed in full uniform and surrounded by a glittering staff, received the agitated schoolboy. The timid and shrinking youth was deeply impressed, which, doubtless was WiIhelm's intention, but it was a cheap victory.
 The eX-Kaiser at once sent him to Bonn University, where his favorite son, Prince Eitel, was studying. The president of Bonn University solemly warned the young Duke to forget Britain and his British upbring ging and descent They docked the Duke of Albany of his baptismal Leopold and turned his Charles Edward into Karl Edward.
 A Romantic Wedding.
 They continued his Germaniza tion by placing him in the Prussian Guards and before he was out of his teens the ex-Kaiser made assurance doubly sure by finding him a wife in the person of the ex-Kaiser's niece, Princess Victoria-Adelaide of SchIes- -Holstein-Sond Glucksburg. And in order that there should be left no possibility of the young English Prince proving "wayward" and dis playing g, Twill of his own" they sent the young Princess from Holstein on visit to her cousin Eite1 at Bonn, who introduced the Duke of Saxe- Coburg-Gotha.
 The young couple were soon out boating and driving. and they were sent for long walks in the moonlight at fan0is