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Show i I 1 I Members of Menzol-i I lern Family Plan to i Leave Very Soon. . ! DESTINATION SECRET Ex-Kaiser and Son in HoSlasid; Former Em-: press in Poor Health, j i AMSTERDAM, Nov. 22 All the members of the Hohenzollern dynasty dy-nasty will leave Germany in .the -near future, accoVdirig'ToV Frankfort Frank-fort dispatch to the Rotterdam Courant. Their destination, It adds, is not yet known. So far as is known, the only members of the Hohcnzollern dynasty dy-nasty who already have left Germany Ger-many are William Hohcnzollern, the former emperor, and his eldest eld-est son, Frederick William, the former crown prince. Both arc in Holland. There have been conflicting con-flicting reports regarding the for-mer for-mer German empress, who has been in poor health for some time, but the probabilities point to her not having left German territory. The ex-emperor has five other sons. His one daughter, Victoria-Louise, Victoria-Louise, v married the Duke of Brunswick in 1913. A recent dispatch dis-patch reported the abdication of the duke. The former emperor's only brother, Prince Henry of Prussia, is not known to have quit German soil. There are several male children chil-dren among the former rulers grandchildren. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 22. In a proclamation proc-lamation the new government of Saxony, Sax-ony, according to a dispatch from Dresden, declares It is striving for the abolition of the old federal constitution constitu-tion and for the union of the Saxon and German peoples in a republic Including In-cluding German -Austria. Self-government, the proclamation says, should be granted to the component compo-nent parts of the republic. The authority author-ity of tho soldiers and workers councils coun-cils should be defined most speedily by tho national council. A national guard to replace the standing army after Its demobilization is suggested. LONDON, Nov. 22. (British Wireless Wire-less Service.) Somo of the Dutch newspapers have been dealing of late with the presence in the Netherlands of William Hohcnzollern, the former German emperor, and the former crown prince. Tho Tolegraaf and some I of the other journals advocate the expulsion ex-pulsion of the German personages. Tho Niews Van den Dag of Amsterdam, Amster-dam, a very moderate newspaper, publishes pub-lishes an article on the subject which reveals tho uneasiness prevailing in various Dutch circles over the presence pres-ence of the Hohenzollerns. "For the present," it says, "perhaps there is no danger of n plot on our soil against Germany's new democracy, but who can say when this danger might not bo realized if tho 'guests' do not depart speedily? "History teaches that kings in exile like to seize a favorable opportunity to ro-enact their former roles. We do sire to express our frank opinion that not we, but the allied governments, have- the right to decide whether the residence on Dutch territory of Individuals Indiv-iduals who are considered by them to personify the powers against which they have been fighting, is dangerous to them or not If the Dutch, government govern-ment has another opinion on tho subject sub-ject then It will have to bear tho consequences, con-sequences, and tho Dutch nation, if things como to a serious pass, will be involved in war or have to starve, forsooth, for-sooth, on behalf of the former German royalties." |