The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-04-11
END COMES TO
EX-EMPRESS
Of GERMANY
Funeral Will Be in Hob
land; Burial in
Potsdam

4 AftANFtaNH AaH"ff AANAN ttAftANA
Empress Augusta Victoria OF Ger
many died here az s o'clock this
morning. BY strange coincidence tho
end came just one year after she
suffered her firsi serious attack on
heart disease
II was while she was preparing TO
enter the house OF Doom. the present
home OF the former emperor OF Ger
many, after her long residence at
Anrerungcn that she was stricken
with what az the time was believed
TO b. a fatal attack That was on
April II. 1890. f.or a few days, there
were reports that her death was mo-
montarily expected. hut she rallied.
and accompanied her husband TO
Doorn. on May IS last.
Attacks OF her fatal maiady -
CURED at frequent intervals, each
rapplng her vitality and nullifying
the measures taken by specialists 20
restore her health. When her son.
former Prince Joachim committed
suicide In Berlin last July. she was IN
such serious condition that the news
Of his death was kept from her for a
long time. and Il IN said she never
learned her son killed himself
| Funeral nc Doom.
Late last autumn the former
empress condition gradually became
worse.
| Funeral services viii be held nt the
house of Doorn tomorrow and VIII he
attended by only members OF her
family The remains will be taken 20
Potsdam on Wednesday, and another
funeral service will be held there.
Il h stated former Emperor VIII
liam will accompany the body as FAR
as the Dutch frontier.
Driven Into F'Nile
| Collapse Of the central powers ana
| the vicissitudca of war that drove
former Emperor William OF Germany
and his consort into practical exile IN
i Holland In November, 1918 was the
lowering OF the curtain In the ifc OF
the once beautiful empress and queen
Of Prussia. Augusta Victoria who. for
nearly 40 years. had been the most
beloved hausfruu of the German pco-
ple. In the Netherlands. where she
and her huband resided first AZ
4 Amerongcn and then at Doom, the
former kniscrin'B long continued III
ness was made more grave by he=
yearning TO return TO Berlin aad Pots
dam. on several occasions since her
residence In Holland members OF her
family have been summoned 60 her
bedside In anticipation of her death.
but she rallied and survived.
| The cX-empreas' Erayest cloud, next
20 the abdication Of william II, was
the tragic death Of her son. Prince
shootins himself I'm Rorlin In 1890.
sno",lnk s.,l n,ills" ~ ~ sn.s 4, satS
~, Iaacht,,, h,d tster bis own ne.
-, s'.,,i's asnsc.st,,s, c,,,,,, which
haunted hcr. was the Russian revolu-
zion and the fate that befell Em-
peror Nicholas aud his family with
ali of whom. before the war, she
had been on tho kindlicst terms,
a. 90 49,, -, i,,,.rcs, ~ ,h.ri,n hie
~. - ~ - hs,,',,.,,,.,,, 80 thc
,,,tar c,,,,di,io,,, ~ ,i,c GERMAN moor.
q, 80, 80, ia ~ h,r tbat sh, v,as
-, a, c,n.ri,ii, eisted woman and
-, a., ,,,rcd more sor tho aintplo
duties 81 home Iif. than for ROYAL
, | s,,,,,i.,,s
p.,,,,,c.t N,,,,,,d.
7, a, M, Lnaysn thst she exorciacd
- ,.,,,t,t,,,,t. M, A., Ci,,cn,.c nolitic.ftv
80 -, -, d..si,,oJ 10 do Va TIc,
,',.,,,' ,.'..',,,,,d I,s,c.d a. no direct.
'd 49, ,hc ,,si, ~ hcrou,lnr "A helm
al n'if,, and IA devoted mother 10 hoi
~, sons a,d on,. daurhtor. That sh,
~ i.'t ~. tor,nrr .m
, -, .,,,,st,.d Trcnu.,ttv "a, one,
Z b'..',,,,.,d ~, a. athc tdcat of an,
, ,,,,,,,s -, n ,,rr,an nrincess shc A
! 80, H.. dcciarcd go yyhor, 1 o,ye ina
. az, .tIe to bear tbe Nycivh,v re
' .nans,,,li,tes ~ mn .nosition IN n ioy
: ~, ,nI,i,
! conrcrpinr the attitude Of IN,
! g., ,,,r o,,nrcss toNsrd tho war uttl,
A. t,o,,,,
, srrnc ipdicat;on of her point o
o. ,icy, as ri,rn in her rcplv In July
- tsts a. a i.,t.r written IN the vii,
ag ,bc D,,tch mi,lstor Of war. In re-
\ ,,,,.,,,it,,. AZ, tbrn ,u,t,r,ss declare,
mai Germ,nv rru.atcdiy had mani
I | f.s,.d brr rcadinesa for pearr which
a sbc declared hnd mot been ontcrtainol
( bv IN. opporlne powers.
4 That shc snibsrribed to the con
4 tcption ~ military leaders that Ger
n,nv ,,ss fiebtinr "A defensive wai
,,as .hown ~ "A stntcmrnt she issue
,t tb. berippin., ~ thr great conflic
in which she s.,iJ That Germany wa
nrn,tnu us,lf Tor IA fight which
ma not rn,is. or begin and which
|. h carrving ON only TO defend itself.