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Show EEHI EMPEROR ADtfDCATES PEAGE -I HOPE WE SHALL HAVE TWENTY-FIVE YEARS MORE OF PEACE," 8AY8 WAR LORD. Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Accession of Emperor William to Throne Celebrated Cel-ebrated Throughout Germany aa a General Holiday. Ilerlln. The twenty-fifth anniversary anniver-sary of the aweesi'm of Emperor William Wil-liam to the Imperial throne was celebrated cele-brated Monday throughout the Ger-man Ger-man empire as a general holiday. The commemoration, which had l-n deferred from IU actual date out of respect re-spect to the memory of the emperor's father, Frederick, coincides with the , forty-second anniversary -of the triumphal trium-phal return of his grandfather at the bead of bis victorious army after lb Franco-Prussian war, and was naturally natural-ly marked by considerable military display. dis-play. Km phalli however, was In Id aJso on the peaceful aspects of tli emperor's quarter-century reign -Industrial and civic developments and the material prosperity of the country. The presentation of an a.tdrens from the American I'eare society by Andrew Carnegie, 11. 8. flrooilliiRs or Si. l-oul and J. O. Schmldtlapp of Cincinnati, II "I i - i n ' ''ST' CI If ' M 1 L i - l ' EMPEROR WILLIAM. gav ther emperor an opportunity of bringing out this aspect of occasion. He responded to Andrew Carnegie's congratulations on the omilUon ot his twenty-live years' peaceful reign with aa emphatic. "I hope we shall have twenty-five years more of pace." A remarkable story showing Emperor Em-peror William's attitude towards a constitutional con-stitutional monarchy was related Monday Mon-day at die celebration of the twenty-fifth twenty-fifth anniversary of bis reign by the faculty and students of Derlln unlver-t unlver-t sky. Professor Otto lllntte, professor of constitutional and administrative history, declared that the emperor himself had told him years ago how h bad first disregarded and then destroyed de-stroyed the standing appeal made by FYvderkk Wllllsm IV of Prussia to his successors to abolish the Prussian constitution. |