NOT GOOD SONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1915, Page 4

NOT GOOD SONS.

11l her book, "The Kaiser under the' Searchlight," Miss A. H. Catling re-! calls the manner in which the present, German Emperor ascended the throne. It will be remembered (that his ,

grandfather, William 1., was slowly dying of aid age, while his father, Frederick 111., was dying of cancer of the throat. Miss Catling writes: "The period of Frederick's illness, exceedingly brief though it was, was overshadowed by well-nigh everything that could increase his sufferings. Doctors were battling to keep life in him long enough for his accession; his son, leagued with all his foes, acting in opposition to every wish. With a most reckless indifference to suffering, he could hardly wait till the breath was out of his father's body before grasping the reins of power." "It was difficult," said Mr Bigelow, "to realise that such a man as William could be the son of Frederick 111. and the Empress Victoria, and grandson of our Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort." Nevertheless, it was so. And to-day, if all reports are true, the "Clown Prince" of Prussia is serving his father in much the same, indifferent way. '