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Show oo : i CROWN PRINCE'S HUMILIATION. Crown Prince Frederick William has renounced his right to tho German . throne. In the meantime the crown , prince has explained that he never fa-l fa-l vored the bombing of London or the campaign of U-boat ruthlessness. This is a somewhat belated repentance. repent-ance. Before the opening of the war, the crown prince informed an Amerl' can woman that Germany had re-solved re-solved on conquest, and America would not escape the German blows. Gerard is authority for the statement, and ho must have weighed his words before he made public this quotation. Therefore, we have reason to believe the crown prince was heartily in accord ac-cord with the entire military program and sanctioned the worst of all crimes tho making of war on peaceful nations. na-tions. . Tho kaiser and his son were in supreme su-preme command. No one dared to cross them. Even Ballin, the great German ship builder, was humiliated when he sought to offer advice to the emperor. Had the crown prince been opposed to aerial raids on large cities, ho could have stopped the horror by laboring with Emperor William. It Is evident that today tho crown prlnco Is filled with dread, and Is desperately des-perately struggling lo save his own neck. Ho Is too cowardly to truthfully truthful-ly face the British, and, anticipating his arrest and trial, is attempting to escape the charge of having been a party to the German campaign of frlghtfulnoss. Frederick William will end his days despised by his own peoplo and held In contempt by tho allies. oo |