TROUBLE ENDED

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1913, Page 7

TROUBLE ENDED

. « — . THE HANOVERIAN THRONE CLAIM RELINQUISHED l A BETROTHAL. , By Telegraph.— Press Association,— Copyright. (Received February 11, 9 a.m.) BERLIN, 10th February. The Kaiser's daughter has been betrothed to Prince Ernest of Cumberland, whose father has sworn allegiance to 'the Empire. The family's claim to the throne of Hanover has been abandoned. Prince Ernest becomes' Duke of Brunswick. [The feud between the houses of Hohenzollern and Guelph is written in history. Hanover, formerly a Duchy, became an independent electorate in 1692, and after the elector of Hanover became George I. of < England the two States had pne sovereign. In 1837 Victoria ascended the British throne and under the Salic law, which forbids a woman to reign over Hanover, her kinsman, the Duke of Cumberland, became King Ernest of>HanoVer. . The electorate had been- raised to a kingdom in 1814. It would be a kingdom- to-day had not Ernest's successor, George V., joined Austria and Saxony in - their war against Prussia in 1866. The Hanoverian army made a fight at Hohensalza and then surrendered; and the victorious Prus* sians annexed the whole kingdom as Well as Hesse-Cassel and Frankfurt. The deposed King George issued a flaming protest from Vienna ; and later his faithful Hanoverians formed a legion to fjght against Prussia on the side of France. In 1878, ex-King George died, leaving a heritage of hatred to Prussia to his son Ernest*Auguflt< The Hanoverians did not love the Guelphs, who from 118371 1837 to 1866 had been despotic, persecuting constitution breakers, but when they were gone their ex-subjects began to sigh for themj and a Guelph party was formed to plague the Prussians. The question of Ernest-August's cjajjn to Hanover was further complicated in 1884 by his becoming also rightful sovereign of Brunswick, owing tk> the extinction, , of the house of Brunswick* Wolfenbuettel. Of course, Germany would not let ErnestAugust ascend this Brunswick throne as long as he was at open war with Prussia over his claim to Hanover. The Imperial Government, therefore, admitted that he was rightful Duke of Brunswick, but pronounced hitn "permanently hindered" from occupying the throne, and appointed as Regent of Brunswick Prince Albert of Prussia, who made himself hated by the people, and increased the vigour of the malcontent Guelph party. The Duke was given a eh'ance of reigning in Brunswick, if only he would renounce the Hanoverian throne. But when such suggestions were made he emitted an Emphatic, categorical "Never I"] V