The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-03
WARL0RD AND
 bRIDE-T0-BE
 LONG FRIENDS
Interesting Revelations of the Former Kaiser Are Made by Princess Herrnine Won Schoen- aich-CarOlath.

aich-Carolath.
 Copyright, 1922, By The International
 News Service)
 Editorial Note:-The following des- patch gives a thrilling account of an unceremonious visit paid by the Ser lin corresp ondent of the International News Service, s. D. Weyer, to the Silesian Cast1e-home of Princess Her mine Won Schoenaich- h-Carolath, of the ancient house of Reuss, the bride-to- be of the former German Kaiser. MT. Weyer was a passenger on an airp1ane which crashed on the Princess estate Sunday during flight, an account of which have been published by Inter- tional News. MT Weyer and another member of the airplane party escaped unhurt, but the others on the machine were injured All were taken into the P@ncess' Castle where they were tV ated as guests. It was the first tiMe a newspaper correspondent had entered the home of the woman who is to be the future wife of the one time German War Lord. Interesting revelations were made concering the long friendship of the Princess and her betrothed-the former Emperor.
 By s. D. WEYER,
 I. N. s. Staff Correspondent. Copyright, 1922, By The International
 News SerVice.)
 Castle Saaborn. Silesia, Sunday, via Berlin, Oct. 3.-This is being written in the library of the Princess Hermtne of Reuss-Schoen oenaich-Carolath. the bride-to-be of the ex-Kaiser of Ger many. On a couch lies Captain Lud- wig Hassenpglug, former German staff officer, nursing a wrenched hip and bad contusions. Beside him kneels Tons Raab, famous German war ace"
 Now and then the door opens and the Princess softly enters with whis- pered inquiries as to how the patient is getting on.
  yards from the Castle, lies the wreck age of Airplane D-82, which after cir cling the Castle, suddenly turned turtle.
 forester lies Captain Wilhelm Strunk, former Austrian army officer, airman and soldier of fortune. Captain Strunk who had been captured by the Russians in the great war, twice walled from his Siberian prison camp to the Chinese frontier and twice was re- captured and taken back. He suc- ceeded in escaping the third time. Later he served as an aviator on the Piave River front. After the war he served as pilot of the airpIane which carried Enver Pasha, the famous Turkish soldier of fortune to freedom, after he had been seized in Kovno while on his way from Germany to Moscow. Strunk once had fought with the British army in India.
 Captain Strunk was the more seri- ously injured of the two. He suffered from a bad confusion of the brain.
 It is now growing late in the after noon and the Princess has just enter ed the room,
 'I insist" said she. that you shall all remain here over night I have just had wing of the Castle fixed up for you. There are four beds and anything else that you may desire you have but to ask for. Please consider my Castle your home''
 The invitation fba1 by the Princess to her unexpected guests to take tea with her.
 The Princess 'mammy''-that is to say, her cook, who, in this instance, dinner. Before the guests sat down to the table the Princess ordered her butler to fetch some rare old wines from the cellar.
 the talk naturally turned to the be- trothal of the Princess and the ex- ka1ser-now an exile in Holland
 Much has been written about my engagement to the Kaiser excIairn- ed the Princess with some warmth Much has been said about it and still more IS being whispered by gossips who have nothing else to do but stick other people.
 Surely our engagement and we'd ding are private. We both desire to De 1"e IeIt alone. We wish to avoid need
 
 whole thing as simple and as un- oStentatlous as possible.
 All | can say is that most of the stun published in connection with our affection and the friendship between lne halser and myself are by no means new. We have been chun1s since my girlhood. I have always LIooked up to the Kaiser and admired me tragic events in both of our lives probably deepened our mutual un,dGerstanding and affection
 The Princess eyes were moist with tears as she glanced at a portrait on the walls-the picture of her late hus- oand. He was dressed in the uniform of the Dragons with which he served Tn the great war. As a result of the wars hardship he contracted consump- ion Throughout his illness the Prin- cess constantly and devotedIy nursed her husband although her youngest child was then only babe two years old.
 Upon desk in another corner of he room stood a picture of the former Kaiser evidently a recent one It shows William with only a mustache which makes it appear that he has again shaved off his beard. It was evident from the photograph that with only the mustache looks younger than William with a beard
 The above remarks was all that the
  mate affairs She is a beautiful wo- man in the prime of life, radiating health and cheerfulness. She does not ook her 36 years nor does she betray he fact that she is mother of five children. She speaks English and French fuently and is well versed in literature. survey of her library showed books in English and French as well IS German. Among the books ob- l 'erved by the writer were Hero sand ] Hero Worship" by Thomas Carlyle. 1 he works of Lord MacauIey; the | works of Charles Dickens and those | If Mark Twain.
 The International News correspond ] mt was the first reporter ever ad- nitted to the Castle, although it must i 'e admitted that only a near-fataI air rash opened the gates. This is an .ncient feudal hom with nothing n common with the inquisitive burl1 'urly of the modern reporter. The House of Reuss is one of the oldest | n German nobility and the tra aditionaI laims is that the family is equal +o he Hohenzollerns