Friday, November 12, 2010

Death of Crown Prince is confirmed

November 12, 1918

By Atlantic cable and the Associated Press.   The death of Crown Prince Wilhelm, eldest son of the former Kaiser, has been confirmed by The Hague correspondent of the German news agency Havas in Munich, according a dispatch to the Paris newspaper, Matin.   This report has not been confirmed by any other news agency.

The former German emperor special train left Maastricht yesterday morning, and is heading toward Amerongen.  More than 2000 Belgian refugees jeered the train as it pulled out of the station.  William Hohenzollern "did not show himself."

Another dispatch from Amsterdam reports that Workmen's and Soldiers' Council at Berlin announced that the former Emperor, former Empress and their eldest son, Wilhelm, have arrived in the Netherlands.

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