PRINCE GEORGE OF SERVIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3158, 8 April 1909, Page 3

PRINCE GEORGE OF SERVIA.

The Crown Prince of Servia, who has dramatically, not to say melodramatically,irenouueen al! hi 3 rights to the succession, is a violent and impulsive young man. The ground of his present discontent is the unworthy accusation made by some people that he kicked one of his grooms to death. An earlier story concerning him alleged that he amused himself by trying to shoot a cigarette out of a soldier's mouth. When he missed the cigarette and hit the soldier another soldier had to play Prince George's William Tell, but as the sport threatened to decimate the palace guard it had to be interrupted. A less sensational story accused him of insulting and assulting a venerable old monk whose guest he was. His friends say that Prince Georee's offences are nothing worse than the pranks of a high spirited lad in his cups. His enemies say that he is a drunken degenerate or a violent madmam. He has certainly contrived to offend every high official with whom he has come in contact. One dark night Major Dunjitch, Commandant of the Life Guards, allowed the Crown Prince's carriage to pass without saluting it. Prince George stopped the carriage and bellowed a question at the major. An explanation was offered. "March o , dog, and don't bark!" wan the Prince's elegant rejoinder. Major Dunjitch expostulated, but succeeded only in provoking the Prince to hurl at him a volley of the coarsest j abuse. Prince George of course comes of a family with an abnormal history.. His greatgrandfather was murdered and his grandfather was exiled from Servia. His father ! gained the throne by IHe assassination jof King Alexander. Of course the i supporters of the Obrenovitch dynasty ' can find nothing "good to say of the Crown Princ?, who is a Karagrorgevitch, and he cerrainly provides them with plenty of material for ' evil stories. Prince George is only t twenty-one years of age. His younger ' brother, Alexander, has not dis- | tinguished himself so far by either virtue or vice, and if the report that j his is of mild disposition is correct it is easy to understand that he would | have not desre to succeed to Servia's ! throne.