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Show WIFE OF EX-KAISER DIES Former German Empress Augusta Victoria Passes Away at Doom. Doom, Holland. Former Kmpress Augusta Victoria of Germany died hero April 11. Collapse of the central powers nnd tho vicissitudes of war that drove former lCmperor William of Germany and bis consort Into practical exile In Holland In November, 1018, was tho lowering of the curtain In the llfo of the ejee beautiful empress and queen of l'russln, Augusta Viclorla, who, fur nearly forty years, had been the mofct beloved hnusfrnu of the German Ger-man people. The former empress' gravast cloud, next to the abdication of William II, wns the tragic death of her son, Prince Joaeliiin, who committed suicide by shooting himself In Ilerlln In 101!0. She was never Informed, It Is said, that Joachim 'had taken Ids own 'life. Another depressing event which haunted haunt-ed her was the Russian revolution and the fate that befell Kmporor Nicholas and his family, with all of whom, before be-fore the war, she had been on tho kindliest terms, Augusta Victoria was notable dilef-ly dilef-ly for her keen interest In charitable work and In the betterment of tho living conditions of the German poor. It has been said ef her that she was not an especially gifted woman and that she cared more for the simple duties of homo life than for royal functions. |
