The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-02
NE W LEADERS TAKE PLACES IF THOSE IN B|G CONF L|CT
Many Are Disgraced And 0utcast, While Few Retain
 Their Old Stations

LONDON, August 1.-Nine years ago today the storm of the World war broke upon Europe. In France, Belgium, Germany and Russia crowded troop trains, long lines of Infantry, batteries of artillery and creaking supply trains were pouring toward threatened frontiers.
 On that day Germany invaded France at Grey; Russians crossed the German frontier.
 Today 10,0OO,0OO crippled men throughout the world remain as tes- timony of the mad holocaust that followed.
 But what of the captains and the kings-the great figures who flamed as leaders before the world In war days?
 Correspondents In Europe have surveyed world capitals in tlte past week, seeking the great of yester- day. They have found them in strange places. A few still hold high offices. many are disgraced, outcasts or exiles.
 Here are reports of their varied activities:
 Kerensky Is Editor.
 Alexander Kerenslsy, who for brief span of days ruled, amid tJ'ror and revolution, Russia's 13S,000, 900
 
 in Prague. He purchased a small Russian publication and is trying to get circulation and sell ads. Once he slept in the bed of the czar; to- day his home is an attic above the
 General Wrangle, who led the for lorn hope of his white" army in fierce fighting s he was beaten back upon the Crimea, is camping out in an old French chateau at Faugere. 1lA T his family in food. Mrs. Wrangle has sold her jewels; a son has started work in a factory; daughter makes dresses for living in Paris. Grand Duke Alexander, brother of the late czar, has taken off his med als and settled down to work, writ ing pieces for magazine, in which he explains that women of the world must unite to save civilization. Foch Winning Allies.
 Marshal Foch, commander of the allied armies, is engaged in winning allies for France. He has just re- turned from a trip to Poland and Czecho-Slovakia on a propaganda tour
 Rene Viviani whose voice once reused the world to fight for France, Is quietly practicing law. His juries do not always listen when the tenn pestuous barrister pleads.
 IT, planned to spend the ninth anniver- sary Of the war working on a book or philosophy he expects to finish in hfteen years. He arises daily at am, does daily dozen," eats three hard boiled eggs and starts to write King Constantine was greeted with shouts of Christ is risen" when he rode into Athens in war days. He IS dead in dethroned exile of a broken heart.
 Karl Was Also Exile.
 Young King Karl of Austria is dead, an exile also.
 Czar Nicholas. The Little White Father" lies murdered. in an un- Sultan Mehmed VI. his harem scattered, another on his Stamboul throne, is a refugee in Mecca, pro- tected by the British government, having fled, secretly, in terror or Empress Zita sat beside Karl upon the throne of Austria Hungary. She IS today in Geneva, attempting to pawn the last of her jewels.
 Bonar Law, sick and broken, has been forced to retire as premier of England.
 Lloyd George, The Welsh Wiz ard" is today an ordinary NJ P. He may come back.
 Kaiser Wilhelm II saws wood at Doorn. Holland. Perhaps he con- spires and still dreams of empire. The Grown Prince, dashing one village blacksmith on the lonely sand time general, fishes and helps the dunes of Wierengen. in Holland, far from the glories of Unter Gen Linden and the kaiserhof hotel. Nitti's Home Burned.
 Premier Nitti of Italy mourns the loss of his home, which was burned by fascist who threatened his life as betrayer of his country. Benito Mussolini, who fought in the trenches while Nitti roared in Rome, now fills his office with the black shirt le- gionaires.
 Captain Hans Rose. dashing ad- Venturer, brought the U53 to New port, travelling $500 miles under the sea, his visit a hint to America ot what the undersea boats might do should we enter the war. Today he languishes in Belgian prison, as a Ruhr agitator.
 Earl Beatty of the North Sea fleet is today first sea lord of Britain, married to the daughter of Marshal Field in Chicago. Admiral Jellico, the other hero of Jutland. is now general of New Zealand The island is far from Whitehall; it is hinted the gallant commander has been "shelved" there.
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 Haig Has Big Revenue.
 Marshal Haig works on behalf of the eX-soldier organizations. receiv ing generous dividends from Haig and Haig whisky, but bulking small in British affairs of state. Lord Byng of Vimy is governor general of Canada. Britain has done we'll by her wartime great. They are not forgotten. Field Marshal Viscount Allenby-Allenby of Jeru- salem-is now governor general of Cairo. worrying over nationalist and za9houlist propaganda.
 Von Hindenburg. War Lord of Ger many, lives quietly at Hanover; now and again attending demonstrations of the monarchist party.
 Ludendorff owns qutet villa out side of Munich. where many visitors come and go. He writes bit. Lu dendorff is one of the big figures behind the scenes in the BaVarian fascisti movement.
 Captain Paul Koenig,. who brought the "Deutschland" to America. has done well, being a director of the