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Show PRINCE WILLIAM Of HESSE FALLS IN THE BALKANS Bl-JRLTX, Sept. lo, via London, 4:40 p. m. Prince Frederick William of tlesse has been killed at Cara Orman, it was officially announced by the war oflice today in its report on operations on the Balkan front. Prince Frederick William of Hesse was a nephew of Emperor William. He was born in 1893 at Frankfort-on-the-Main, the eldest son of Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse and Princess Margaret, Mar-garet, sister of the German emperor. Me was reported wounded in the fighting fight-ing in France in September, 1914. Prince Frederick William Ls the second sec-ond prince of the house of Hesse to be killed in the war, Prince Maximilian falling on a French battlefield' in October, Oc-tober, ! Si 1 4. Seven other German princes have been killed during the war two of Sa xe-Meiningen, three of ! iinpe, one of Keuss and one of W aide ai-de I-k. |