THE KAISER'S SONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 124, 19 October 1914, Page 6

THE KAISER'S SONS.

ALL AT THE FJiONT. ■London, August -7. According to advices from Maasumcht two of tilt sons—Kiti;] Friedrich and August VViliiulm—were ;U Liege this week, lucre is some my.-Jiury about the Crown Printc. lie ha, been .reported as leading droops at different portions of the attack, and one rumor credits the Kaiser with having sent kim to the Kussiau 'boundary with his Po.isdam Horse Guards.

In sending Prince Mitel to ;.h e Belgian front the Kaiser wanted to show tiermany that 'his (preference for his second son had not changed, ami, while he is placing itlie Orown Prince in a somewha' 'humiliating and ridiculous position of expectancy he is giving Prince Kite! a chance of regaining by some "heroic" feat .(he regard of the* Germans which he bad .partially lost, Kitel Fritz is only popular wi;h the Court and with the eld Prussian aristocracy.

Nothing, either, is known of the •whereabouts of the Kaiser's sons Joachim and Oalcar. Prince Adalbert is on hoard the battleship Pommern, and Prince Henry of Pnißshi, the Kaisers brother, is in charge of Kiel The Duke of Brunswick, son-in-law of the Kaiser, has taken over the command of the Zieten Hussars, who are operating in Alsace. There wn* considerable speculation in Germany about the attitude of tlie Du!ke, who is a prince of .Great Brilain and Ireland, for he is an offspring of the CurrJberland family. The Duke, after some hesitation, stuck to his oailh as a Prussian officer, but it is Relieved that he will fcive to renounce the title of "Prince of Great Briain and Ireland," while he will also get into difficulties wilh his father, who ,has oinflinehingki remained hostile to the Uohenzollcrns, and will not easily for give his son for fighting in tihe interest of his own personal enemy.

*ot only have all tile Kaiser's sons 'been sent into tih c field, but the Kings of Saxony, Wurtenilburg, Bavaria, and most of (he other Federal priiK'Os have joined tiho armies with their sons. The Prince of kSc'lummburg-Lippe .and' 'his eldest son have been reported killed at Liege anil there are reasons to believe that several other reigning princes ihave been killed or wounded.