The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-04-14
Ex-EMpRESS OF
GERMANY Dies
Death Comes to Augusta VIC
toria at New Home in Doom,
Holland.
TO HOLD FUNERAL At POTSDAM
Was Noted for Charitable Work.
Driven Into Exile With Consort
in 1918-Wanted to Re-
turn to Germany.


Doom, Holland, April 12-Former
Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany
died here on Monday by strange
coincidence, the end came just one year
after she suffered her first serious at
tack Of heart disease
1t was while she was preparing to
enter the house of Doorn, the present
home, of the former emperor of Ger
many, after her long residence at Am
erongen, that She was stricken with
what at the time was believed to be
ialaI attack That was ON April H.
I92O'
Attacks of her fatal nHlady required
at frequent intervals. each SappIng her
vitality ANA multiplying the measures
taken by specialists To- restore her
Heaijil When her SON, Former Prince
J"a'il'ln committed suicide III heF''"
laSI july she was IN sGch serious con
ul'Ion ihat the news OF ms death was
kept from her for long ume' ana It
IS SaIa she never learned her son hl'I'u
himself.
London, April 12.-Funcral services
for Former Empress Augusta Victoria
Of Germany viii be held at the house
Of Doom Tuesday and will be attend
ed by only members Of her family, says
an Amsterdam dispatch to the Central
News. The remains will be taken to
pnfcJup, an Wednesday, opI nppth pr
funeral service will be held there.
Born October %. 1858, at Dolzig,
Augusta Victoria was the oldest daugh-
ter Of Grand Duke Frederick of Schles-
wig Observation-Disclosures
and ranked as q princess Of Schleswig.
IIolstein. Her early clHldhood was
spent at Kiel She was married to the
then Prince William of Prussia on
February p, 1881. They had six sons
ana one daughter.
Collapse of the central powers and
the vicisStudcs of war that drove for
mpr Emperor William of Germany and
his conSort into exile i'm Holland in
November. 1918. aided i'm lowering the
curtain ON the life Of the once bcauti-
full empress and queen of Prussia, who
for nearly 40 years had been the most
beloved hausrruu of the German peo-
pie.
In the Netherlands. where She and
her husband resided, first at Amrron-
gen, and then at Doom. the former
EaiSerin's long continued illness was
made more grave by her ycarning to
! return TO Berlin and POtSdam. For
more than T. years she was a semi
invalid.
The eX-cmpresS gravcSt cloud. next
to the abdcation of William II. was
| the tragic death of Prince Joachim.
| Another depressing event which haunt
ed her was the Russian revolution ana
the fate that bcfcl Emperor Nicholas
and his family, with all Of whom be-
fore the war she had been on the kind,
Hest terms.
Augusta Victoria was notable chiefly
for her keen interest in charitable
work and I'm the bettprment of thp liy-
ing conditions of the German poor, If
has been said Of her that she was not
am especially gifted woman, and that
she cared more for the simple duties
of home life than for royal functions.
II is not known that she exercised
any considerable influence politically
or that she desired to do so. Her
tulcnts seemed instead to be directed
to the task af becoming helpful wife
and devoted mother to her sons nd
daughters. That she achieved this
aim the former emperor attested fire.
qucntly. once he described her as
"thc ideal Of the virtues Of German
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