Is the ex-Crown Prince trying to make more history? It is a question not readily to be answered, for there is a very human element in hig case. Practically all the reports from Wieringen, his late home in Holland, have mentioned the utter boredom to which he was subjected, and it is now generally agreed that boredom is really a form of pain, and an_ intense form, there is every reason in the world why he should strive to flee from it. His flight, however, coincided peculiarly with certain activities of General Ludendovrff, but too much perhaps ought not to be made of that. Whatever Ludendorff did in Bavaria would first of all, probably, have refer-claimant to a vacant throne, and ence to Prince Bopprecht, the Bavarians lost a lot of what little love they ever had for Prussians during the war. At least they said so, though when ther they really meant it is not yet quite certain. In considering the ex-Qrown Prince's present action we have to disabuse our minds of certain ideas cur-vent about him during the war. "With an irreverence found nowhere also, the British troops dubbed him Little Willie, and in the struggle following the Battle of Loos, when the fighting raged about the Hohenzollern Redoubt, there was a feature of the landscape named after him. Incidentally another trench defensive series was known as Big Willie, to commemorate the elder Hohenzollern. At the same time, it is believed that with all the less fortunate features of his character, the ex-Crown Prince is a man off considerable bravery, and is the sort of man who might perhaps lead a forlorn hope for the German throne. So, perhaps, we shall not have long to wait for events which will have even a greater influence on European affairs than those which have so recently aborted.
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