KAISER'S 90 ESTATES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 123, 18 February 1919, Page 6

KAISER'S 90 ESTATES

LARGE FORTUNE IN CASH. The "Eheinisch-WestfalishchiJ Zeitung" is quoted by the London "Times" as saying that the Kaiser's private fortune'in cash, mostly deposited at 44 per'cent, with various banks, 19 estimated at .'.£1,000,000, and his annual income therefrom roughly at ,£45,000. The. Revolutionary Government has declared (so far <s its declarations have any effective value) that the Kaiser's private-landed property will, not be seized, though the Crown domains will pass to the Treasury. The newspaper says, that of 00. forest, farm, park, and othc'r'estates,, castles, etc., only seven are Crown domain, all the rest being private property. -.Thus-the'Kaiser's.private , estates include ■Bellevno Palace in Berlin and Monbijou Palace, within whose grounds is St. George's. English Church. In Potsdam he has thirteen palaces, all 'belonging to him; also Wilhelnishohe Palace at Cassel, where King, Edward paid his -lust visit to the Ktrfser, and where Napoleon 111 was confined after Sedan. Besides palaces and estates in C'oblenz, Wiesbaden, Chadottenburg, Preienwalde, aiul elsewhere, he owns, the wellknown experimental farming estate at Cadinen, of which he used to boast when the Agricultural League met annually in Berlin, also the famous.shooting 'box and forest of Uominten, neat the eastern 1 frontier. He has house property at Trou* ville, and apparently the Achilleiou Palace in Corfu belongs to him. ':

, The cash consists largely of 'savings effected by Frederic William lll—caluclated in 1810 at about .£750,000; after 1871 Wil-' liani-I received =C225,000,as a sort of war bonus. Since this latter sum clearly came from the French indemnity, the Kaiser might possibly have to disgorge when Germany has to repay the indemnity. The Kaiser 'also received .£500,000 fironi the State for the ground where the Royal Library stands, and for the old Opera House "of Kroll, where'the late Sir Her-, bert Tree gave his Shakespeare performances. Jlost of this, however, was spent in improving- those very Koynl stn.blea from whose subterranean paisaws officers resisted the revolution.

Another jonrnal adds that Wilhelm received every ypa.r ,£130,000 a= Emperor and ,1:770,5 mas King of Prussia. He has always known how to feather his nest. A few years ago Herr Kmlolf Martin, an authority on finance, stated that the Kaiser had' About .£1,000,000 of income- arising from investments estimated at a total 0f'.£20.000,000.. He has had big handfiils from the seethiiur pnt of Krupp's. He has important interest? in the huge German shipping companies. His many possessions include potteries i.t Cadinen, a stud farm in East Prussia, and a brewery in, Hanover,