GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 June 1915, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

A writer in the Bulletin says:-—"The Allies -must do more than confiscate Germany's fleet if they seek a lasting peace. They must also put an emibargo on marriages between the, sovereigns, heirs and prospective heirs of the smaller ljuropean States and Gennan princes and princesses. Rouimniia would liave been in the thick of the war, on the side where, its interests lie were its kin},' not a Hohenzollern and its queen a AVied. Bulgaria has nothing to gain and all to lose from an Anstro-Oicrman vk'tory, but its'king is a son of Augustus of SaxesGolmrg and Gotha, and his sympathies are as much pro-German as they arc hostile to the Republic which drove lria mother's family into exile. Holland, with a Germaii Prince Consort, is as Prussian as it (lares to 'be. Of the Grecian Royal l'aiuily London Truth on March 15 last remarked: "The Queen has inherited qualities, shared, of course, by (he Kaiser, damaging to the body and reacting unfavorably ou the 'brain and temperament. King Constantino is a half-German T)anc.' Naturally they are both pro-German, and it was their in. llucnee which brought about the fall of Vcnizeios, the Prime Minister, three months ago, 'and kept Greece neutral. It is really wonderful 'how people of German or Austrian origin stand together. Take the case of Princess Christian and her family. They abided for a lifetime in a state of Royal indigence (relieved by the charity of the British) in the Ascot district. There they lived the scmi-subuiiban lives of that genteel neighborhood and seemed to have no th'ouf(ht of Germany. Their son, Prince Albert, was educated in England, and brought up to be the typical sporting Englishman. As the outcome of it all he Is ifighting in a Prussian Hussar Re. ginicnt against the nation which contains all his boyhood's friends. And his ease is typical of thousands."