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Show EX-KAISER MAY LOSE PROPERTY People To Voite On Expropriation and Thus Lessen Heavy Burden Berlin. For the first time in German Ger-man history the people themselves will be called on to give the verdict in a political lawsuit. The word "political" "po-litical" means here that the case must be important for all citizens. All German men and women over 20 are to answer the question whether the real and personal property of the princes who were dethroned in 1918 shall bo expropriated, without indemnification, indem-nification, for lessening the poverty of the German masses. What the property involved amounts to is indicated by the fact that William Wil-liam Von Hohenzollern demands one billion marks (about $240,000,000) and the Duko of Saxe-Cohurg-Gotha demands, de-mands, in addition to great personal property, 170,000 morgen (about 110,-000 110,-000 acres) of the best quality land, with palaces, hotels, summer resorts, hundreds of houses, etc. Such figures here are only two cases of at least twenty show that the conflict affects all citizens and the whole nation., Nevertheless, four parties in the government desire to avoid a plebiscite and they have proposed pro-posed the formation of a special caurt which will decide all questions and shall particularly furnish a gurantee that the princes will not use property given them for fighting the republican form of government. |