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Show SON-IN-LAW OF KAISER INSANE London, July 26, 2:37 a, m. The Copenhagen correspondent of the Express Ex-press sends a story regarding the illness ill-ness of the Duke of Brunswick, the German emperor's son-in-law, tho story, however, not being confirmed from any other source. "The Duke of Brunswick," says the correspondent, "who has been the victim of profound melancholia since the early days of the war, now Is declared de-clared to be hopelessly Insane. His mental collapse was tho result of a trying experience while commanding a detachment of German troops on the Russian frontier, when he witnessed wit-nessed the tragic fate of his men, all of whom were swallowed up in a treacherous marsh." The Duke of Brunswick, as Prince Ernest August of Cumberland, married mar-ried Princess Victoria Louise, daughter daugh-ter of the German emperor, at Berlin in May 1913. In March, 1915, a Copenhagen Cop-enhagen dispatch reported the duke to bo suffering from a nervous breakdown, break-down, which was considered incurable. |