The Mena weekly star., 1921-04-14
FORMER GERMAN
 EMPRESS DEAD
August Victoria, Once First Lady of Europe Passes Away at Doora LII for Year of Fatal
 Heart Malady.

Doorn, Holland, April 11.--Former Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany died here at o'clock this morning. By strange coincidence, the end came just one year after she suffered her first attack of heart disease.
 It was while she was preparing to enter the house of Doorn, the present home of the former emperoor of Ger many, after her long residence at Amerogen that she was stricken with what at the time was believed to be a fatal attack. That was on April II, 1920 For a few days there were re- ports that her death was momentarily expected, but she rallied and accom- panied her husband Go Doorn on May 15. last.
 Attacks of her fatal malady re- |curred at frequent intervals, each sap ping her vitality and nullifying the measures taken by specialists to re- store her health. When her son, for mer Prince Joachim, committed sui eide in Berlin last July, she was iR such serious condition that the news of her death was kept from her long time and it is said she never learned her son killed himself.
 Late last autumn the former em- press condition gradually became worse and on several occasions her children were called to Doorn but her strength was such that she rallied bravely when the end was believed inn minent. Since the first of this year | it had been known that she was grad ually sinking.
 The death came as shock to the dwellers in Doorn castle as during last week the patients condition had seemed less serious. Nevertheless, last Saturday Dr. Hasner, after con- sultations with Professor Hymans, the Dutch heart specialist, thought it ad- visable to call Princess Victoria Louise, the only daughter, to Docrn. She was then in Vienna, and had not reached Doorn when death came to her mother.
 Last night the patient was only semi-conscious. She was kept from suffering by frequent hypodermic in- jections, but her breathing appeared to become hourly more difficult
 As the day broke breathing be- came still more dufficult for the fail
 ng patient and her pulse grew weaker.
 London, April II. Funeral services for the late former Empress Augusta i Victoria of Germany will be held at
 he House of Doorn tomorrow and will be attended only by members of her 1 family, says an Amsterdam dispatch to the Central News. The remains will be taken to Potsdam on Wednes- day and another funeral service will be held there.
 The former Kaiserin Auguste Vic toria had been aiIing greatly during the war. The fate that overlook the reigning family, and especially her husbands and her own exile, had the effect of so preying on her mind that her heart became affected She had a stroke of heart failure on November IT, since then her condition became practically hopeless. She grew weak CT and weaker, and week after her seizure she knew she would not live much longer. Her earnest request was that she be buried in Germany
 Auguste Victoria, who was sixty two when she died, came to one Of the collateral branches of the Haps- burgs of Austria. and was grandniece by marriage of the late Queen Victor ia of Great Britain. She was born to a Princess of Schleswig- -Holstein, of the Austenburg branch, her father having been Duke Frederick of Schles- wig and her mother the Princess Adei- held of Hohenlohe-L -Langenburg. Her father died when she was child. and she became ward of Prince Chris tian, her uncle. who married the Prin- cess Helena, daughter of Queen Vic toria of England.