ONE OF THE SUPER-HUNS.

Taihape Daily Times, 28 November 1918, Page 2

ONE OF THE SUPER-HUNS.

o STORY CONCERNING PRINCE EITEL. 1 Prince Eitel Fritz, the Kaiser's second son, who is said to be watching his father’s intjitests at Potsdam, proved what manner of man he is at Avocourt. He occupied the chateau, there for several months, one w France’s most historic chateaus, rich in noble associations. It was one of the buildings specially covered by a clause in the international agreement between England, Germany, and the United States, and all ed nations, safeguarding historic buildings. When the Germans were forced to retreat the aged French servants, who served Eitel during the occupancy, heard the German officers telling the prince that he would disgrace the German name if he destroyed a building that had no relation to war and could be of practically no aid or comfort to the French army, and he would make his own name a name of shame and contempt, of obloquy and scorn. But he would not yield. He brought in great wagons and moved to the freight cars at the station every object that was in that splendid chateau. And having promised to leave the building uninjured, he stopped his car at the gates of the ground, ran back, and with a can of oil that he had secreted, filled the asbestos in a ball of perforated iron, ran through the halls and waited until the flames were in progress, and then ordered his men to light the fuse of a dynamite bomb. ■