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iCi; THE FRONT.
:-?. ... . ? nt . - - . -ROYALTY IN THE FIRING r LINE.
t -- ? ? ? ? *lf;3&ore than half of the Boyal Princes -joj. Europe, ,as weiLaeLf. number of reign mgimoveia&ia, tooVtheir poets at the Xrpni witSi the first blast of the war tnun r»ft. Be^eral members of the Gennan -Yeval and princely booses laid down their ^TW.inthe first phases, of the great world -^T'^Stopl' Toil shall cot march into my country.' was the command of the young ? jtjiH litnJmni. Marie Adelaide of Luiem S^.' who endeavoured to prevent the i4Sennan ineundon into the Grand Duchy, IrV barring the way of the troops with her i»otam6bile car on. the Adolpb. Bridge. 7J~3he Csar arid the Kaiser are both in the fjjjgfating line- 'Ting George made a eoecial itfip tn the Continent, and went to the 3nn£ Where His Majesty's presence had ?1& -effect of greatly encouraging his brave ?'.''/Albert, - Sing of the Belgians, has ex iibited conspicuous gallantry in the war. Spa presence in the Liege fortifications in ^mred-the brave Belgians in their historic re&istance' to- the German invaders, and S^Fday Bis Majesty- is sharing the paneera »nd privations of the campaign ^iusVkingdonL King Albert, who has iSg^detotbed as the handsomest sove ^£m';:in Europe, has .demonstrated brU - tiast qualities -of military leadership. - ajne Prince of Wales and his next eld est brother, Prince Albert who is 19, are l^both -«n. active service, the former with Jjte Botiflh forces operating in France ? aid Seiginm, and the latter serving on yas^Aiprthe'CoUingwood, in the North ttgeaX^Rince Arthur of Corinaught, a ijfgjttsin of the King, is serving as a naval .-5o5msnder in the North Sea. Prince riJUBxander of Teck, Queen Mary's young fjfest brother, who is Governor-General de fMfeate of Canada, volunteered for service [fSpieioutkreak of the war. ',*33iere are no recognised Royal families I' &T3ie' French, Republic, but it is, inters «jfing to note that Prince Louis, son of '?the reigning -Prince of Monaco, has enr . iweo^hesRrench army, as a lieutenant. ? He is'Jtnown as 'Monsieur de Monaco.' ir On the- Russian side the movements of %hc members of the Imperial family at [ttelfcant-Jsays a wnter in ?'Munsey'ii 'Msga^e'. for November) are shrouded, ['evidently for strategic reasons, in the j^fegiest Becrecy. One Imperial figure, :l§pever, stands out with' striking bold 'ncas from the vast mass of men whom the Gfeir is 'pouring in a relentless avalanche '*m& 'tbe^Gennanic world. He is the iifiSdlhike Nicholas Nicholaievitch, a mm**mee removed -of .the -pre^eh^Csar, k^^^a^iwfaudson of Czar Nicholas I., for ^SS^'^be/reigninjc monarch was named, felu^pfeelfaainarv operaHbps 'of 'the fius ^ ~nfmp*ifiYi jBpaioBk roe Gannon . and :cjgSi«9^$*Ui the' 'enemy- 5h ibe^GaJicisai 'frontier' NichoTas ?»Whblaievitch and. half A,»eo|* pother Grand Dukes took their flffiS^-iat^fooot. r«TW»d Duke Cyril, SoSSof ^Vtoafmir A]exawlrovitcii, nncle of ?the JJaaf. .in'dirfavoar because he had mar ried A divorced Princess, was among the fir* royalties to go to the front. Other -Gqand Dukes who are announced officially .*8 bavinst-Sone to the front are Boris and Dmitri and Princes Ivar. Oleg, Trot, and 'Alexander. ? -The Grand -Duke Nicholas is regarded as in a large measure the builder 'of'thr Ptnriiim Arinyaa it is to-day. lie ..has especially devoted his energies to the development of the cavalry arm of the ser vice,' which has given so good an account of itself in tile operations along the Aus -tro-Hnngarian and East- Prussian lines In the operations against Austria the sobs of King Nicholas of Montenegro, hitasrif a warrior of renown in two »;ars 'against' Turkey and the fratricidal con flict with Bulgaria, have taken an active and a brilliant part. Prince Danilo. the Crown Prince, it; Commander-in-Chief of :tfee- Montenegrin forces, which are ooerat in- in conjunction with the Serea&ne along the borders of the dual monarchy. He Jjas taken personal part in many engaee TmS1**' and has repeatedly sighted and SS3 gone against the Austriane. . Princes 3tefa- and Peter. Prince Danilo's bro -SeW, have yielded in no way to the pros jSjtiye head of their house in the ex 'pKitB^f war. ? ?Th%. two sons of King Peter of Servia jar* «&the front. The Grown Prince Al :fxjnder:i8 'second in command of the Ser Jgao forces, with General Radomil Putnik l^^ehief of the general staff. i f;QSermany has many Princes fighting in *@£war. The Crown Prince Frederick j tWffhelm 'has' been rewarded for gallan w; in action. Another of the Kaiser's 'SwA Prince' Oscar, achieved distinction Sin '.the preliminary operations on the long iKne of battle from Belfort to the Atlantic, «nd his .military prowess as leader of a rgeijueut' of grenadiers was signalised by ba imperial chief as a . notable event. !3¥mce '.Adalbert, third eon of the Gennan Emperor, is one of the commanders of the Beet.' . '-? . 'Hunsey's Magazine' states that jthe. .minor Princes of the Ger jnao States have plunged into tie war with an ardour no less intense than ?thai of the Imperial family. One of the ?commanding military figures on the side of the -dual alliance is Crown Prince Rup jSrecht, of Bavaria, leader of the German advance into Alsace Lorraine. The Kai ser's brother. Prince.! Henry of Prussia, jif^helieved to be in -personal command of r-bc German manoeuvres .in* the Baltic, .a-bd in the. naval attacks upon Russia. , Prince Williain of Liptie* was.kined in the Cghring at Liege attHe^ beginning 'ef the .^fiict: ? : -:~-;-- . The house of Saxe Meiningen-Hildburg hausen is sorely bereaved Prince Frederick, one of the commanders in the initial move ment through Belgium, was killed in the assault upon Namur. while at the head of his troops. Two days later his eldest son Prince George, attached to the staff of the 6th. Thuringian Regiment of Inf antrv, fell near Namnr, and tbe younger son, Prince Ernest, belonging to the same regiment, died 24 hours after he had ben wounded. Princess Frederick of Saxe Meiningen lost her busband and two of her three sons practically in the same engagement. Prince William of Lippe, already referred to as having been killed at Liege, was her uncle. Prince Herbert of Lippe fell in the initial engagements of the German retreat upon the Belgian frontier in Sep- tember. Grand Duke Albrecht of Worttenberg y a.i*xHrpB commander in the field. Prince -Joaeldm, the Kaisers' second son, lieuten 2nt. of. the fiwt regiment of Foot Guards, was wounded in the thigh while riding as 'information officer during the operations «gwnst the Russians in East Prussia. Prince Joachim Albert of Prussia, second cooem of the Kaiser, was wounded by a shnpnel bullet in tbe retreat from Paris. Prince Fredrick Charles of Hesse, hus Aand.of Princess MarKuerite, the Kaiser's sister. distmpiiHhed himself recently on the Franco-Belgian frontier. The colour bearer of the regiment was wounded and reeled backward, and the colours fell to *hfe ground. The Prince immediately dashed forward, seized the flag, raised ii and carried 'it forward to victory. Two Princes of the house of Hesse, officers in IJKlan regiments, have been reported Voimded, They are Prince Frederick WBlfem of Hesse, nephew of tbe Kaieer, aBd¥rince Frederick, eldest son of Prince ' Cbariea.- ? ?