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...Wilhelm Tang, a director of Deutsch-Südamerikanische Bank of Berlin, rose early last week, told his wife he was going for a walk in the garden. When breakfast grew cold on the table his children went to look for him. They found the body of Wilhelm Tang hanging from the branches of a pear tree...
...served at Sedan, at the Siege of Paris, and-great moment in his life-at the proclamation of Wilhelm I as Emperor of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. Followed 40 years of peace. Hindenburg climbed slowly to a Major Generalship and was given command of the East Prussian frontier. This he decided would one day be a great battlefield. He painstakingly studied every inch of that desolate swampy land and became known as "the mad Old Man of the Lakes" and "General Mud." In 1911, 64 years old, he retired from the army, certain that war would...
...building the Goeben and many another grim battle boat Germany dashed into the naval race with Britain which led straight to World War. Shrill above the German shipyards' anvil warbeat rose Kaiser Wilhelm's royal ravings...
Chancellor Ender, although he had resigned, felt chesty. To President Wilhelm Miklas he said with a certain arrogance that he, having saved the Kreditanstalt and averted panic, would "consent" to form another Cabinet with the under-standing that he would ask Parliament to grant him "extraordinary powers...
Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron, German Ambassador to Washington . . . LL.D...