South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-13
HUMAN TRIANGLE
BREAKS ROMANCE
FOR Elk KAISER
Wilhelm Welded Princess of
Reuss After Engagement TO
Another Was Broken.
BN =. u. WEHER.
U. y. ). stan Correspondent
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Copyright. 1922. by International
News Scrvicc)
BERLIN. Dec l2-The human
triangle being no respecter Of per-
sons. bobbed up one day OF Castle
Doom. entered without knocking
and rudely broke up the secret ro-
nance in the life OF Wilhelm HOheu-
zoLern. former German emperor
and then 60 began 20 play It's Old
heartIezs game entitled "rhe woman
pays
The woman who. IN this case. paid
and paid and pald-and is still pay
Ing in heart blood in friendship. in
respect and IN social prestige IS Frau
Gabrielle Won RochOw. who, for six
months was secretly engaged 70
marry Wilhelm HohenzOllern.
She broke of the engagement aft
err "the Kaiser Camariila.' Gas WI
helms encourage at Doom is now
known had attacked her for two
reasons:
Firstly. while she belongs 70 the
so-called "Radel." which IS the old
est and proudest aristocracy in the
empire-her forebear5 were knights
in Brandenburg long before the ad-
1vent OF the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IS
Fnot OF royal blood; therefore it
would have been a misalliance II
the former kaiser had ever been re-
turned 10 the German throne.
Secondly. the members Of the
Kaiser Camarilla disapproved Of any
remarr!age. preferring TO keep the
exiled monarch under their own
sway without interference from
wife who might look into their
cards.
Common Emotion.
Strange as it may seem. these two
women - Frau Won Rdchow. who
lost. and Princess Hermine OF Reuss,
who won in the game of love-have
one common emotion and uttered 1t
10 me in almost identical words: il
is tho most bitter. undying hatred
against the members OF the former
kaisers encourage at the house Of
Doom.
Right hero It should be said that
Frau Won RochOw has not the slight
est bit or Jealousy or envy toward
the woman who won and was led to
WAYS speaks OF Princess Hermine
tnow known in tho HohenzOlleru
household as Kaiserin Hermine) in
the kindest and most cordial terms.
Her grievance lies elsewhere.
Some one once said that mans
nneanness may turn a woman into a
tigress." Frau Won Rochow has not
reached that stage. but she has ar
rived az the point where she de-
mands satisfaction from her calum-
niators Today she took the first
legal step. The whole affair now
!. threatens TO branch out into a public
! scandal.
The "Other Woman"
The facts OF the story have been
IN the correspondents possession for
three months, but he was unable 10
publish them because Of the other
woman"
While she poured out her soul and
told the story OF her romance in all
its intimate details-sometimes amid
tears-F'rau Won Eochow was abso-
lutely loyal 10 tho former kaiser and
begged the writer no. TO paint him
I'm his true light, namely las 4
coward and a cad" who. after i'm
ploring her upon his knees to marry
him and finally winning her consent
with the plelrhat he could not live
without her. listened 10 tho whis-
pers OF the "Camarilla" These wills
pers appealed to his vanity as "em-
peror' and they persuaded the for
mer war lord TO th1 ow over hts afi-