The Washington times., 1922-09-27
BY S. ID. WEYER,
International News Service.
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International News Service.
Copyright, 1922. by International News
Service.)
CASTLE SAABOR, Silesia (via
Berlin Sunday, Sept. 27.-This is
being written in the library Of
the Princess Hermine of Reuss-
Schoenaich- Carolath, the bride-to-
be of the ex-kaiser of Germany.
On a couch lies Capt. Ludwig
Haasenpflug, former German staff
officer, nursing a wrenched hip
and bad contusions. Beside him
kneels Tons Raab, famous Ger
man war "ace."
Now and then the door opens
and the princess softly enters with
whispered inquiries as to how the
patient is getting on.
In a freshly ploughed field, a
few yards from the castle, lies
the wreckage of airplane D-S2,
which, after circling the castle,
suddenly turned turtle.
Soldier OF Fortune.
At the home of the castles chief
forester lies Capt. wilhelm Strunk,
former Austrian army offcer air
man and soldier of fortune. Captain
Strunk, who had been captured by
the Russians in the great war, twice
walked from his Siberian prison
camp to the Chinese frontier, and
twice was reCaptured and taken back
He succeeded in escaping the third
time. Later he served as an aVia-
tor on the Piave river front. After
the war he served as pilot of the air
plane which carried Enver Pashl,
the famous Turkish soldier of for
tune, to freedom, after he had been
seized in Kovno. while on his way
from Germany to Moscow. Struak
once had fought with the British
army in India.
Captain Strunk was the more seri-
ously injured of the two. He suf-
fered from a bad confusion OF the
brain.
It is now growing late in the after
noon and the princess has just enter
II insist" said she, that you
shall all remain here over night. l
have Just had wing of the castle
fixed up for you. There are four
;,eds and anything else that you
NAV desire you have but to ask for.
flpdSt COIlSlhCl my NehoNAS GO JONt
home"
The invitation was then ex.
tended by the princess to her uneX-
pected guests to take tea with her.
The princess "mammy"-that is
to say, her cook, who, in this in
stance, was white-prepared a Won
derful dinner. Before the guests sat
down to the table the princess or
dered her butler to fetch some rare
old wines from the cellar.
Chums Many Years.
After some general conversation
the talk naturally turned to the be-
trothal of the princess and the eX-
kaiser-now an exile in Holland,
Much has been written about
my engagement to the Kaiser" ex.
claimed the Princess with some
warmth. Much has been said
about it and still more is being
whispered by gossps who have
nothing else to do but stick their
noses into the private affairs of
other people.
Surely our engagement and we'd
ding are private. We both desire
to be left alone. We wish to avoid
needless publicity. We want to
, make the whole thing as simple
and unost as possible.
IAN can say Is that most OF
the stuff published in connection
with our engagement is silly non
sense. The affection and the
friendship between the Kaiser AMI
myself are by no means new. We
have been Chums since my gill.
hood. have always looked up to
the Kaiser and admired him.
"The tragic events in both Of
our lives probably deepened our
mutual understanding and affec-
ton"
Kaiser's Beard Gone.
The princess eyes were moist with
tears as she glanced at a portrait on
the wall-thc picture of her late hus-
band. He was dressed in the uni.
form Of the dragons with whom he
served in the great war. AS re.
suit OF the wars hardships he con
tracted consumption. Throughout
his illness the princess constantly
and dCvotedly nursed her husband,
although her Youngest child was
then only babe of two years.
I'pon a desk I'm another corner of
the room stood a picture of the for.