Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...briefly: Fell into the hands of the Portuguese in 1662; came under British flag as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza when she married King Charles II in 1662; in 1684 British abandoned it to the Moors on account of the expense it involved; in 1905 Kaiser Wilhelm II paid a visit to the port of Tangier on board the Imperial Yacht Hohensollern, remained six hours and said enough to provoke an international crisis; 1906 Conference of Algeciras settled the whole Moroccan question and placed Tangier under temporary international control; 1911 Germany sent the warship Panther to Agadir...
...Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany brought a suit against Herr von der Heydt, Editor-in-Chief of the Lokal Anzeiger, for having published a story to the effect that the Kaiser in 1895 caused a young lieutenant named von Hahnke to commit suicide...
...story said that when the Imperial yacht Hohenzollern was lying off the Scandinavian coast the Kaiser insulted von Hahnke who struck him in the face and later had to kill himself...
Vice Admiral Count Platen-Hallermund, who said he was officer of the watch at the time the face of the ex-All Highest was injured, related that the injury occurred by a rope striking the Kaiser in the course of some manoeuvres and that no altercation occurred between him and von Hahnke. He said that the Lieutenant went ashore for a spin on a bicycle and on descending a mountain path lost control of his machine, ran over the edge of a cliff, was dashed into the sea and killed...
...House of Zedlitz was aroused. Baron Eberhard von Zedlitz and Neukirch, second in command of the family, took it upon himself to denounce the Count as "ein Verräter an dem Kaiser (a traitor to the Kaiser), and his book to be an unworthy attack by an officer of the old imperial defense forces of the former War Lord." The Baron then struck him off the family roll and organizations connected with the old German Army followed suit by expelling him from their societies...