THE KAISER'S HEIR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1451, 28 May 1912, Page 5

THE KAISER'S HEIR.

-« - r ACCUSED OP WASTING HIS TIME. An article attacking the CfbnMi Priuc« i'or neglect of his military duties is attracting great attention, and was repro-' duci'il at the beginning of last month in many leading German newspapers. It appears origiimlly in "Der Tuerincr,' 1 a monthly review, and was written by llcrr Guenth'ol von Vielrogge, a retired officer. The article observes that up to the time when the Kaiser appointed his heir to the colonelcy of the- famous "Death's Head" Hussars at Dasizitr lust September,.' the Crown I'rincß had never done any military service worth mentioning. It was hoped that the Danzig command would at last fill the Prince, in whose veins the blood of so many warriors flowed, with genuine enthusiasiu for his profession. "I'p to the present, however, the honee aroused by the transfer to Danzig remained uiifiillilled. The (Jrown Prince is tib-i-eiil fur too much 011 leave. .Indeed, one might n«k when he is at'the'he.id-.of his regiment nt all. "lmmedintely after his appointment !lte august young gendcinnn went (ravelling for four weeks, principally to hunt. Soon ufler his return .«•« niw Sum in Berlin, sonietiines in tho Reichstag, where he. attended tho Morocco debates, and-some-times nt the flying grounds. At (lie beginning of December l;c spent u'week in Silesia hunting, ami nt the oiul of liecomber and commencement of January ho was in Berlin again. "Between tho last-named leures he war prostrated by illness, which not only confined him to his room but to his bed over tho Christinas holidays. This illness couW not have been very grave, otherwise the Berlin newspapers would not so soon have been able to report (hat he whs'dedicating himself to winter sports in ilie Tiergarten. ■• • •

"At the end of .lnuunry Iho Crown Prince again oniiiu lu Berlin to participate in Court festivities nutl. lho>p ronnrcied with the Kaiser's birthday mid flip-clii'i«-toniim of liis own eon. When tlioo wi-m ever lie betook hiiiiii'lf to Switzerland, where, in ihp cniniiany of his gracious consort, ho throw himself into the joys of sleigh jiihl ski with his zeal, That lie remained in Switzerland longer than w.'is intended was due io an injury received at ico-hookey. "Oii March (i the Danzig Hussars saw their commander again, and were at inM. able So give the 'winter ball,' which tlu-v had linn to postpone on account of the Crown Prince b many abseisces."