PRINCE LOUIS OF BATENBERG
, RESIGNS FROM THE AD-; | v MIRALTY (Reo. Ootober SO, 8.20 p.m.); London, Ootober 80. It is officially announced that ViceAdmiral, Prince Louis of Battenberg has resigned his post as First Sea Lord; at-the Admiralty. TRIBUTE BY MR., CHURCHILL'. (Reo. October 31, 0.20 a.m.) -^ London, October 30. ] Prince Louis of Battenberg, in a! letter to Mr. Churchill, states that he is driven, to the painful conclusion that his birWi and parentage aro impairing ) in some respects his usefulness on the Board of tho Admiralty. Ho therefore feels it his duty as a loyal subject to resign'. .; Mr. Churchill, in replying, paid a ■ warm tribute to Prince Loiub's services. Tho present life-and-death struggle was exciting terrible racial passions, and Prince Louis's decision showed' the same spirit as that with, which his nephew Princo Maurice had given, up his life for England. A cable message published on Thursday stated that "silly stories_ bad been current for several weeks impugning the loyalty of ' Prince Louis. _ The 'Globe' in an apologetic article said it had received numbers of _ letters from % correspondents on the subject, and asked for an official statement." The Prince is a son of the late Prince Alexander of Hesse by a morganatic marriage. He married his cousin, Princess Victoria of Hesse, wbo is a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria. Ha became a naturalised British subject in 1868, at which age he entered the Royal Navy as a cadet. He has two sons in the _Navy, one of them, Prince George, being a. sub-lieutenant on the Now Zealand. 'A. inephew, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, a lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, was reported yesterday to haw died of his wounds.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 31 October 1914, Page 7
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281PRINCE LOUIS OF BATENBERG Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 31 October 1914, Page 7
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