THE PLOT AGAINST THE CROWN PRINCE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2477, 26 May 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE PLOT AGAINST THE CROWN PRINCE.

Tun Weekly Despatch affirms that arrangements hail been secretly made with German surgeons to render it impossible for the Crown Prince to suceed his father. By the family statutes of the House of Hohenzollern it is impossible for a Crown Princes afflicted with an incurable dicease, or so injured that he is permanenly disabled from commanding an army in the field, to suceed to the Crown. Cancer is an incurable disease. Hence the servile Bismarckian doctors pronounced the throat affection of the Prince to be cancer. In cancer of the throat excision of the larynx is a legitimate operation. Hence it was to be performed on the Prince, first because it was pretty certain to kill him off, and second, because if it did not kill him it would so mutilate him that by the family statutes Bismarck could bar his succession. Matters went so far that the operating table with surgeons' knives was laid out in readiness for the murderous outrage on the Crown Prince, when suddenly Dr Morell Mackenzie fell upon Berlin like a bolt from the blue. The Crown Princess, through her spies, had got wind of the conspiracy against her husband's life and her own prospects. With almost demoniac energy she upset it in a moment by the only means open to her—the production of a surgeon whose opinion, whatever we in England may think of it, could not from his status be ignored, and who not only denied that the Crown Prince had cancer, but forbade any operation that permanently mutilated him.