LUXEMBURG'S RULER DEAD.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1374, 27 February 1912, Page 5

LUXEMBURG'S RULER DEAD.

J. MINIATURE PRINCIPALITY.

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyrighl (Ree. February 26, 9.0 p.m.) Berlin, February 2G. The Grand Duke William of Luxem burg is dead. His cighteen-year-oli daughter, Princess Marie, succecds him.

Luxemburg, with mi area of 9SIB square miles, is one of the smallest independent countries in (ho world, though in point of size 'it is an empire compared with the eight square miles over which the Prince of Morocco rules. Tho Grnnd Dticliy in bounded lj.v Germany. Belgium, and I'rancc. It formed part of the Germanic Confederation, 1815-iiG, and is Mill included in the German "Zollverein." In 18G7 tho Treaty of London declared it a neutral territory under tho sovereignty of tho King of tho Netherlands, on whose decease, November 23, 1890, it passed to tho Duke of Nassau. Tho population numbers about 250,001), nearly nil Woman Catholics. The Principality is rich ill iron-ore. Tho revenue in 1910 was .£731,91)0, expenditure ,i!7G2,358; debt (January 1, 1909), .£120,(00. There are 328 miles of vnilwav. The ann.v numbers about 300 men. "The capital, Luxemburg (population 20.G52), is n dismantled fortress. The deceased Grnnd Duke was born on April 22, 1852, and was married at the u»i> of 41 to Princess Marie Anne, a daughter of Miguel, Duke of Braganza. He succeeded his uncle in 1905. He has six daughters, but no son, the eldest being Princess Marie, who now bceomcs Grand Duchess. She Was born in 1894, and will be eighteen Years old on June U. The Grand Duke, ultliou?li his domains were small, was rich in title?. Besides bein? Grand Dul;e he was Duke of Nassau, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Count of Savn, Konigstein, Katzenelnbogeu and De'itz, Burgrave of Ilnmraerstein. and Seigneur of Mahlberg Weisbade, rdstein, Jfek'iiberg, Limboutg, and Kpp=teiu.