GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 67, 24 February 1916, Page 8

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

[viO WAR MEDALS JUST YET. Unixuu Pukm Association. London, February 22. In the Commons .Mr H. E. Poto ask<>d for the issue ol an Imperial war .service metlai tor the men who served at Gallipoli. in reply, .Mr Tennant said it was considered undesirable to issue medals until the conclusion ol the war. THE KAISER’S COURT. London, February 22. The London Magazine publishes the personal experience of Fdith Kerr, an English dresser to Princess \ k'loria of Prussia for seven years. She was recently released Iroin internment at Potsdam and describes the Kaisers voluptuary extravagance. She states that bad investments are his principal worry, and he owes immense sums to tradesmen in Berlin, London and Paris. He always lias a heavy personal overdraft, and is indebted to two wealthy members of his household. The Reichstag in 1907 increased his allowance, hut this did not enable the Kaiser to overtake his difficulties. As a result the family sold favors, and the Empress secured large sums in return for appointments as maids-of-honor and ladies-in-waiting. Four who were appointed in the season 1910 brought £35,000, and a wealthy German paid the Empress £IO,OOO for permission to accompany her to tile London Court. Tradesmen paid £IOOO for royal warrants, and £IOOO was the usual fee for an invitation to a Court function, when seats in the galleries wore sold for .£/), the Kaiser making a thousand pounds at each banquet, which provider! scenes of elaborate, most costly, and degrading gluttony. General Hindenhurg is the most notorious glutton in the army. Once lie ate six stuffed partridges, but The Kaiser devoured seven, and Prince Leopold exclaimed, “Wilhelm won the I the gobbling match because Hintlenhnrg did not like partridges! The Kaiser sold mart of his Potsdam estate to escape financial disclosures. Tlie Kaiser, who is only a tremendously glorified figure, has enforced the most rigorous discipline at Court.