Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-02-04 | Page 12 | Germany Sends Millions to Kaiser

In. The courts cleared the Hohenxol-lerna Hohenxol-lerna of the chancellor's charges. WILLIAM'S F08TUNE. Kijturos from Doom show William Hohensollern In paying: tax to Holland 1 on an income of $650,000 a year, which would IndicateMhat he admits having! a fortune of $13,000,000. Recently the former Crown Princsl Frederick William emresned it as hiaj "dearest wiHh" thathe should retain; the castle of Baubcrtr. the marble pal- are at Potwdum and the feudal terri- I tory of 'el, an estate of about 25,000 aiTM, valued at $1,500,000. Herr Hellmunn, Socialist deputy, pointed out to the a-wmlily that by the' terms of the trust deed -the land wai to be held "by the crown prince of the time," but he Argued that, as there was now no crown prince, it reverted j o the commonwealth. The fornv-r crown prince Is paying to Holland tax on an Income of $17,200 a year, which indicates that he acknowledges ac-knowledges property worth about $350,-000. $350,-000. DUKE ASKS $5,000,000. The Duke of Brunswick, who mar-i mar-i ried the former kaiser's only daughter j i and who was the firnt to flee from, i (frmany, recently demanded of the re- j j publican government of Brunswick thatj it give, him ba k his kince forests, coal i und iron mines and other property, or j j about $;..000.00ii ash. tailing this, he i said he would sue. j The government replied that this I property belonged to the sovereign and not tn the Individual. As there was ! no sovereign any more, tho property I belonged to the state. linn MILLIDHS40- n Large Sums Officially Paid and Yet More Smuggled Across Border HOHENZOLLERN DOINGS PARIS. Fsb. S. Here's what the Hoh.nzollerns and their children chil-dren are doing: WILLIAM, head of the houaa Living life of country gentleman gen-tleman at Doom, Holland. AUGUSTA VICTORIA, wife of William Sick at Doom. FREDERICK WILLIAM. crown prince Loafing at Wierin- 9AU0UST WILLIAM and OSCAR Bluffing at working in a Berlin bank. ADELBERT Pottering around Hamburg shipyards. EITEL FRIEDRIChbrlriyelina. hither and thither. VICTORIA LOUISE Spending moet of her time in Holland. Prince Joachim committed euicide last year. j l PARIS. Feb. 4. Already Germany has paid to William llobemollcrn at least $9,140,000 of which there Is of. flclal record. The total may greatly exceed this amount, for It Is generally accepted that more millions have been smuggled acros the Holland border to the Hohensollern coffers. The criticism In France Is echoed In the muttrrlngs from the underfed, underpaid, un-derpaid, tax burdened tollers of Germany. Ger-many. PAYMENTS MADE. The legal committee of the J'nissian assembly recently demanded of the Prussian finance minister that he give an accounting of the sums paid to llo-henxollern llo-henxollern since he fled to Holland. These sums wore reported by him as follows: January, 1S19 17.500.000 August, 1919... ?2li.OOO October. 1919 4IS.000 Since then about $500,000 more has ben paid to him aairoreeils from land fn W llhelmstrasse, Iterlin. On top of this came the revelations brought about by a, red hot speech by former Chancellor Herman Mueller, who charged that Severn 1 hanking firms had smuggled about $1,000,000 out of the country. He said among the recipients were former frown rlncess Cecelle. Frlnces Kite! Priedrlch and Auguat Wllhxlm. and the suicide. Prince Joachim. The finance minister aald that 4ases arwlnst the banking firms were prnd-