The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-13

He explained that his fiancee had treated him badly, that she had even insulted him.
 Finally the Emperor exclaimed :: "You are a soldier and an officer. You swore loyalty and obedience to me on the standard of your regiment. Now l command you, as your war lord, to marry tomorrow.
 The grand duke could do nothing ex- cept obey.
 Kaiser Blocks Elopement
 The Emperor described, too, what drastic methods he had to use to per suade the fiancee, Princess Reuss, to marry the grand duke since she abhor- red him fully as much as he abhorred her. The Empress sister, Princess Adolf von Schaumburg, had been afraid that, directly after the ceremony and before starting on the honeymoon journey, the young grand duchess might elope. She had told the Emperor that she had noticed a young man lowering about the castle, the son of former court cham berlain. So after the ceremony the Emperor waited in the anteroom while the grand duchess changed into her travelling dress, then took her by the arm and escorted her personally to the carriage.
 Two years later the young duchess caught pneumonia and died, and the Empress, speaking to Fraulein von Gers dorff, was doubtless right when she said that death was the best thing that could have happened to her. Not that the Empress was referring to her un- happy marriage, but rather to certain little indiScretions of which the grand duchess was supposed to have been guilty before her marriage, which gossiping old women had repeated to the Empress and which the latter had never forgiven. She always treated the grand duchess badly
 Last night, (March IS, 19O7,) after the solemn banquet of the Knights of Saint John, the Emperor ordered into the smoking room of the aides-de-camps suite Court Marshal von Seckendorff, attached to Prince Heinrich, and Ad- miral von Usedom. Knowing that doubtless His Majesty would like to see few more gentlemen, I asked General von Hahnke, von Scholl, Count Huelsen-Haesler and von Plessen to join us. There were present furthermore the two aides-de-camp, von ,Friedeburg and von Senden.
 Calls Edward Satan
 The Emperor, suffering from indi- gestion, looked tired and was not very loquacious. But around II o'clock he began to give his views on England's politics and grew excited. He com plained bitterly about the way in which his uncle, the King of England, was intriguing against him. He said that he knew all about it through private correspondence from France. Not only in France, he said, but in other coun- tries too the King of England was busy trying to undermine him.
 He wound up with the remark: "Ed- ward is Satan personified You can be- lieve me: Satan personified You can believe me: Satan personifiedl''
 often wonder what sense there is in this rapid increase of our navy. People, chiefly the Emperor, insist that we need it to protect our foreign trade and to assist its growth We'll, has not Holland, too, large foreign trade, and is Holland protecting it through a rapidly increasing navy?
 The chief result of our naval prep arations is that all the world looks on us with wary, suspicious, and jeal- ous eyes. England, for instance, not without justification, holds that we are increasing and strengthening our naval armaments with the sole inten- tion of rivaling her sea power. What IS the good of these enormous expenses, this introduction of unrest and sus- picion, and jealousy into our foreign relations? To me the entire naval situa- ton seems artificial. Instead of help-