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Show Kaiser Couldn't Sing, So Doffed His War Helmet Incident Occurred at Close of Ceremony in Which He Rewards Heroes. Special CaMe to Tlie Tribune. BUDAPEST. Nov. 20. Tho Magyar Tudoeito reports details of the last visit of the German emperor at Cracow. The ruler and his staff arrived in the old Galician capital in ton automobiles and were greeted before the cathedral by the commander and tho highest officors of tho fortress. , In the afternoon the kaiser: visited the famous salt mines at Wieliczka. When the monarch arrived he was saluted sa-luted before the Stofani grotto by eighteen eight-een Hungarian honveds (landwchr troops), who had been in the hospital of Wiolirzka for some timo, after jrroat- ly distinguishing themselves in the battle bat-tle in Poland. The kaiser announced that he had decided de-cided to award tho iron cross to all tho Hungarian heroes and ho pinned the decorations dec-orations to tho breast of each man after a speech which was translated by an Austrian lieiitonant. The ceremony closed with tlie singing of tho Hun-gariau Hun-gariau national hymn by the honvods. The emperor and his suite could not jdin in tho singing, as they do not speak Hungarian, but they removed their helmets. hel-mets. 4 |