Show PRETENDER IS STILL KING BAVARIANS OF Peasants Hail Hail Rupprecht as Rightful Ruler RulerS MUNICH UP UP-Rupprecht UP Rupprecht pretender pretender pretender pre S tender to the throne is still sUll kingto king cing kingto to thousands of Bavarians On his sixty fifth birthday today although he never has occupied the Whittles- Whittles bach throne in Munich and seems farther from attaining it il than ever before The younger generation in Munich know him himas as a pleasant country gentleman gen gen- tieman cultured and quiet On countless peasant farms arms from the high benches of the Alps to the meadows mead mead- of Franconia he is the kini colloquial for king rightful ruler of Bavaria Rupprecht was born May 18 18 1869 the son of the prince who later became became be be- came Ludwig III of Bavaria He Hc studied state theory and science at Berlin and Munich universities traveled trav tray led in the Far East and nd America and at 17 entered the Bavarian army When hostilities began In August 1914 Rupprecht in jn command of the Sixth army array directed the drive which threw the French back in the Lorraine Lor raine campaign between Metz and the He commanded In Flanders Flanders Flanders Flan Flan- ders during the latter stages of the war Although he be realized the futility of attempting to win back his throne Rupprecht never renounced his rights to it When his father lather died in 1921 he emphasized those rights Jn In a proclamation proclamation proc proc- to the people |