THE LATE EMPEROR OF GERMANY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2927, 18 June 1888, Page 2

THE LATE EMPEROR OF GERMANY.

Frederick William Nicholas Charles Emperor of Germany, and King of Prussia, was the eldest soil of William 1., King of Prussia mid Emperor of Germany. He was born October 1811), 181)1. He was made a LieutenantGeneral in 1860, and attached to the stall' of Marshal Wrangel m the time of the Danish war, in which lie took an active part. In the war witliAiijkia (18(10) lie commanded the army <smTe Order, and in the Franco-Prussian war he led tho third German army corps. With a superior army he beat that under Marshal MacMahon at lleichshofeii; following up this success he quickly overtook MacMahon at Sedan, inflicted another defeat upon liini, and finally forced Napoleon 111. to surrender with an army of 88,000 men. For this exploit Prince Frederick William was made a Field-Marshal. At the seige of Paris he held the left bank of the Seine until the city capitulated (Jan, 19th, 1871). Since the Franco-Prussian war lie has L been President of tho Eastern Frontier Defence Committee. In 1878. lie acted as Regent of the German Empire. In 1858 he married the Princess Victoria of England, Her Majesty's eldest daughter. The greatest anxiety was caused last year throughout the German Empire by the critical position of His Imperial Highness's health, Early in the year the medical advisers of the PMjfce were called iu to diagnose a fonnafftin in his throat, which they feared was of cancerous growth. Dr. (now Sir) Morell Mackenzie, on the recommenpation it is believed of Queen Victoria was called in, and pronounced the opinion that the growth was a wart without cancerous symptoms. By a skilful operation Dr Mackenzie succeeded in cutting it out; and the Prince, after confining himself for a time under the Doctor's caro at Norwood, returning to Germany it was thought quite cured. He proceeded to Italy to winter at San Remo. . Shortly after his arrival throat formation appeared, which the medical advisers generally agreed was cancerous, and the Prince's life was despaired of until, a few weeks subsequently, it remarkable modification of tho growth induced them to change their opinion with regard lo its real nature. Dui'ing the night of the lStllwne, the Emperor's slumbers were disturbed with iits. At three o'clock in the morning, the weakness increased alarmingly, though the Emperor was still conscious. There were no signs of ! suffering, and at il a.m., His Majesty passed away in the presence of his family,