THE THRONE OF HANOVER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 31, 7 October 1913, Page 5

THE THRONE OF HANOVER.

THE KAISER DEFIED.

[By Electric Telegraph —Copyright] I United Press Association. 1 Berlin, October 4.

The Hohenzollern-Guelph feud has been re-opened with all the old bitterness. The speeches at the wedding of Prince Ernest of Cumberland with the Kaiser’s ( daughter, of a happy reconciliation were apparently based on a misunderstanding. The Press of all shades of opinion, insist on the abandonment of the arrangements to elevate Prince Ernest to the Brunswick throne. A grave political crisis is threatened.

Chancellor Von Bethman Hollweg’s position is difficult. Shortly after his betrothal, Prince Ernest, in a letter to Her Von Hollweg, stated that his oath as a Prussian officer and his acceptance as the Kaiser’s son-in-law ought to be an adequate guarantee of his behaviour in connection with the proposed alteration of the status of the Duchy of Brunswick., Although the letter was conspicuously devoid of reference to a renunciation of the Prince’s claim to the Duchy of Hanover, Herr Von Hollweg unhesitatingly assured the Kaiser and the Federal Council of its adequacy.

A THREATENED STORM.

Berlin, October 7

The Kaiser has returned from a flvf weeks’ holiday at Potsdam and will take personal charge of the Guelph situation. He has sent Herr Hollweg to Munich to confer with the Regent of Bavaria, whose mediation with the Duke of Cumberland has been sought. Meanwhile no announcement will be made of the Prussian Government’s policy. Public opinion unalterably opposes a Guelph assuming Brunswick until he explicitly renounces Hanover.

The Nationalist Press threatens the Kaiser with a storm which will reduce that of November, 1908, to the dimensions of a summer zephyr. A semi-official communique describes Prince' Ernest’ 5 attitude as exemplary. He is utterly opposed to Guelph machination. It states that the Prince .is coming to Potsdam this week. The Daily Mail’s Berlin correspondent states that the Prussian Court is less anxious to act hastily because through the recent disappointment of the Kaiser’s daughter, the question of accession is less acute than it has otherwise been.

According to the Frankfurter Nachtrichten, ' a categorical renunciation was demanded before the betrothal. Prince Ernest and the Kaiser’s fourth son conferred at Karlsruhe. The former declared positively that his love for the Kaiser’s house was second to, his honor, and left the room. Prince August brought him back, and the betrothal was announced without clearing up the matter of a renunciation. An interview between the Kai,ser, the Duke of Cumberland and Herr Von Hollweg followed. The Duke tenaciously adhered to the opinion that the marriage had nothing to do with politics, and stated that j a renunciation would never be made | either by himself or by his son. In a semi-official communique, the , Lokal Anzieger says that while there is no active intention to dispute the Kaiser’s title to the Duchy of Hanover a formal renunciation and disavowal of the party which had fought the | cause for half a century would be ■ a humiliation that the j could not honorably accept.