The Emperor's Black Eye.
Writes the London correspondent of the Auckland jStar :-We are still waiting for an elucidation of the mystery surrounding the Emperor of Germany's black eye. Kaiser Wilhelm it will be remembered sustained an injury to his eye on board his yacht the Hohenzollern some three weeks ago. It was said to have been caused by the fall of a rope from a mast. Many paragraphs went the round of the press as to the accident, giving circumstantial details as to how it happened, and on the day after a further paragraph gave the details of a fatal accident which had befallen Lieut, von Hahnke, one of the officers on board the yacht, which wae then lying off Odde, in Norway. The young lieut., so the telegraph told us, landed from the yacht to go cycling on the morning of the day following that upon which the German Emperor had received his black eye, and "on an abrupt declivity leading down to the Sandvon Lake lost control of his machine and went straight into the sea," where he was drowned. Mr Labouchere, in Truth, says: " My paragraph a fortnight ago respecting the black eye the German Emperor unfortunately received during his yachting cruise, and the death nest day of Lieut, von Hahnke, seems to have excited a good deal of interest, but so far I have had no satisfactory response to my request for information. One correspondent of mine has been in communication with the editor of a well-known German newspaper. This gentleman does not deny nor does he admit the truth of certain statements which were put before him, but in his letter he pointedly calls attention to the severity of the German press laws, and adds that he ' cannot supply any information likely to cost him six months or more.' What is the mystery underlying the Emperor's black eye, and was the injury to the Imperial optic in any way responsible for the death of the young Lieut'? If not, why should the details of the affair, if published, be likely to cost an editor six months or more?"
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Hastings Standard, Issue 461, 27 October 1897, Page 4
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354The Emperor's Black Eye. Hastings Standard, Issue 461, 27 October 1897, Page 4
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