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Show EMPEROR TO HAVE FIGHT German Ruler Will Not Receive $750,000 Inheritance Without a Contest News Notes From Berlin. Berlin Aug. 16 Emperor William will not rece-lve without a fight his inheritance of $750,000 from Hermann J Knorr the patriotic wood -dealer of Kauchwltz whose decrajio after bequeathing be-queathing to his majesty practically his entire estate was reported last week. Tho widow, who asserts that much of Knorr's wealth wa.s due to successful suc-cessful real estate speculations financed fi-nanced by the money she Drought to him as her dowry, will rontesi the will, which assigns to her merely the nmount of the original dowry and an annuity of ?200 H the rest of tho estate poos to the emperor, 'to ! be used in strenstheninp the arm J and navy " First estimates gave the value cm" the estate at only $250,000, the i'.iiionnt nt blh Knorr had been assessed lor taxec, but later inves-tigatlon inves-tigatlon -bowed that a far larcer motl 1 eredL up. to the Ini Id ul profit ' bis royal resld-uai resld-uai gatee Th vidow. who after nineteen ears : introubled married mar-ried life finds the provisions of the will exceptionally hard, will be as--isted In her fijclii b ien near and needy relatives of her husband, who do not seem filled with that enthu Blasm for Germans a armaments, of which representatives of the govern ment and the palrioiic parties made so much In the recent debates in the Reichstag on the military bills It will be interesting In this c.on-, c.on-, nection to note whether the authorities authori-ties will revise. In IhlB case, the de-i de-i Islon banded down a few months ' ago In the case of a legacy to the Ity of Chiirlottenburg. There a tes-! tes-! tator made the city his sole heir to la considerable property. In the I course of the usual advertising for heirs prescribed as a condition pre-: pre-: cedent to the settlement of a decedent's dece-dent's estate, some distant cousins made ihelr existence known All were necd The provincial govern- menl refused to consent to the city Uookv nn Die eroiinil that the testators relatives must be I provided for Emperor William has Just present ed to the city of Emden two old rusted cannon, which recall an al-in.. al-in.. si i.-.rcnllen chapter of Germ aj colonial history and show that Germany Ger-many was seeking its "place In the sun. ' so far as African coloniefl ire c oncerned, over two stent uric before Agadlr. The cannon were found on the sit.' ..i an old fort Gross Frledrichsburg, on the Gold Coast of Africa, which ' was built for the defense of the 1 ony esLablished there by the Great Elector In 163 Hls ambition was to make Rrandenburg the nucleus ol the future kingdom" of Prussia, a rival riv-al of England and Spain -as a col-onlxlng col-onlxlng power, and he sent out an expedition from Emden to establish a settlement on the west coast of Africa. Emden had at that time one of the best harbors on the North sea, and the Elector decided to make it the home port of hos colonial venture, ven-ture, as well as of his modest little navy. The undertaking, however, did not prosper and in 1717 Frederick Fred-erick William I, the father of Frederick the Great, sold the colonv to the Dutch East India Company Of Amsterdam it finalh fell Into the hands of England through the Ash antee War, about 40 vears ag... Although Emperor William is not now retiring so manv officers, in or iler lo put younger men in control of the army, as he did some years I aco. the problem t finding suitable I positions for the retired men is still B pr sslng one. Retirements usually occur when the officers are still in their best eais and still able lo give twentj or thirty years of their lies to civil" callings. The new Minister of War haa seni out a circular to the Chambers Cham-bers of ( ..mmerce of Germany, ask-: ask-: ing their co-operation in getting posl-; posl-; tions for the relirel ofilcers. He ' claims for thein special fitness for positions of trust and personal re-sponslbllity, re-sponslbllity, and wherever ability to ) manage men. rather than commercial talent Ls required. Expressions on the subject by com merclal authorities lndlcatp considerable consider-able doubt In a general way, as to the fitness of the officers for posi Hons in commercial and industrial undertakings It is felt that most of them are to old to adapt (ghemselves o the unrled circumstances of business busi-ness life, while the feeling, of super-1 super-1 lorlty, cherished so fondly by man ,drun officers, will make It difficult for them to work on a basis of fel lowshlp with men trained entirely along civil linos Dr. Frederick A Cook's claim to the discovery of the North Pole Is still of sufficient Importance to enlist the consideration of scientific men in Germany One of these is Professor Otto Baschln. custodian of the Geo-craphlc Geo-craphlc Institute of the Berlin University, Uni-versity, who,, In an article heade.l "Is Cook a Swindler?" considers the Peary-Cook controersy at consider able length and concludes that the evidence for Cook's truthfulness Is very strong The question of observations based upon the sun's altitude as a method of determining whether one haa reached the pole Is summarily dismissed dis-missed by Professor Baschln as qute unreliable. The Insufficiency of such observations, he 6uys. was Bel forth soon after the Peary Cook dis pute arose by Dr A. Wedemeyer of the German Imperial Maiine depart ment. an experienced a9trcuomer .end navigator, who declared that the ex plorers' diaries so far as observation! of the sun's altitude were concerned, could have no probative value Other authorities have since confirmed this declaration, says Professor Baschln. and, this being o, the question as to who had reaehml the pole became prl marlly one 0f credulity, in which Peary, with years of successful and honorable eiploration to his account, naturally came off the better Profeaor Baechln continues "One I must peparate thin quoatlon (whether fYok r, .iched the pole) from the sec I ond. whether Cook, ovou If he cannot I prove his presence at the pole, did not attain far toward fho pole and tread hitherto unknown portions of that part of the arctic regions These results of his expeditions are no I affected by the strife oyer the pole, and deserve at least consideration, whereas they are fully ignored bv the Peary adherents. LHtlo by little, however, the number of those who believe thnt Cook reached the pole Is I growing |