The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
NEAR CONFLICT BETWEEN KAISER
 AND ALLY BARED
Vienna Plans Memorial To General Who Seized
 German Grain

BERLIN, May S1.--(By the Asso- ciated Press. )-Vienna's insistence upon not going without It's daily sup ply of the dainty pastry and hotfo for which the city is noted nearly caused a split between former Kaiser Wilhelm and the late Emperor Charles at one time during the World wal, ac- cOrding to a recent announcement in connection with proposals made by Viennese to erect a monument to. the Austrian army general who defied the German kaiser and prevented Vienna from starving. The disagreement be- tween the two rulers began over boatload of wheat. It was during the days of food crisis both in Austria and Germany and what bread Germany was able to obtain was made from grain brought from Rumania by way of the Dahube. Austria's food n,iuis- ter appealed frantically to General 'Ludendorff to be allowed to sidetfack some of the grain passing through Vienna nearly every day, but all of his requests were denied. It was at this stage when General Landwehr, who was not at the active front because of his age, stepped into the ,limelight and with a handful of Austrian soldiers confiscated a barge load of wheat in- tended for Berlin. Afterward other boats were seized by the Yiennese:
 This caused consternation in the German capital and Emperor William sent several hot telegrams to Emperor Charles and Charles sent several very highly favored messages back and sWil- liam threatened to send some of his own troops to retake the grain. [ About this time, however, the allies l.. aknL NffA IA kaiser and General Ludendorff were very busy indeed and forgot all about grain in concentrating their attention upon the fighting areas. ,.n1 \
 Now Vienna is considering the erec- tion of monument to General Lands wehr, whom the Viennese credit with having been responsible for saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of Aus trians from starvation by wrestling a great deal of wheat and rye from Aus trias ally at time when the city was virtually without food of any kind.
 Girls with bobbed hair greatly sout- numbered other girls at the first long distance running contests held in Der lin recently. Among the events were a 400 yard dash and 250 yard dash.
 The bobbed hair girls carried off the palm in nearly all the events, although it is an open discussion whether this is due to the fact that they were not encumbered With locks, pigtaifs .,,anj strands of long hair. Some of the long hair girl athletes who participated maintained, despite the fact that they ran second or third to the bobbed hair contestants, that their hair helped give th,m strength. They said they would give up athletics altogether rather than pars with their locks.
 Frederick Is Cheered
 Echoes are still being heard in, Ger man republican circles of the benefit concert given in Breslau recently by IS massed military bands which de- veloped into a sort of political gather ing by the appearance of former Grown Prince Frederick William and Princess Cecilie who were cheered whenever they appeared. Many emblems of the old imperial and royal regime were displayed in the park where the con cert was given but the thing to which the ultra-republican press objected chiefly was the fact that the bsndsmen were members of the reichswehr trqcpsN who also from the reichswehr pattici- pated in the festivities, according, ,; to the newspapers, and there was some goose stepping whenever martial airs were played.
 The crown prince and his wife had motored over from their castle at Gels, near Breslau and their visit. to the gardens was purely informal, it is said, but nevertheless the crowds took .ad- vantage of the situation to stage a demonstration which gave an idea of the esteem in which the prince and princess are held in Breslau near which city former King August of Saxony makes his home in a castle surrounded by a vast estate which is one of the show nIacea of all visitors to SiIesia.