Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-07 | Page 4 | Former Crown Prince Gives up Right to Throne

FORMER CROWN PRINCE GIVES UP RIGHT TO THRONE By the Associated Press. PARIS, Dec. 6, 5:25 p. m. Crown Prince Frederick Wllhelm has renounced his right to the German throne. A dispatch received in Basel from the semiofficial Wolff Bureau -quotes the crown prince in renouncing the throne as having said: "I renounce formally and definitely all rights to the drown of Prussia and the imperial crown which would have fallen to me by the renunciation of the era-peror-klng or for other reasons. 'Given by my authority and signed by mv hand. Done at Wlerlngen, December 1, "l18. "(SlRned) WILITELM. In an interview with a correspondent of the Associated Press, on the Island of Wlerlngen, received in New York, December De-cember 3, which bore no evidence of de-lav de-lav and presumably was given not earlier than December 2. Frederick William said: "I have not renounced anything and I have not signed any document whatever." what-ever." He added that, should the German government gov-ernment desire to form a republic, he would be content to return to Germany as a simple citizen, ready to do anything any-thing to assist his country even to work as a laborer In a factory.