RUPERT’S LAND

former district, Canada, secured by Hudson’s Bay Co., thanks to Prince Rupert; now included in N.W. territories and province of Manitoba. 12° 44’ E.), town, Brandenburg, Pru ia, oe sear R.; manufactures cloth. Pop. FERDINAND (1869), ex-crown prince of Bavaria and brother-in-law of the Queen of the Belgians; at opening of the World War commanded 6th Ger. Army; first engaged near Morhange, afterwards round Antwerp and at Lille; defeated with heavy lo es at Neuve Chapelle, March, 1915. In Dec. 1916, after first battle of the Somme, was honored by the Kaiser with the ocak leaves of the Order Pour le Mérite. Afterwards commanded army group in Artois. In Feb. 1917 he planned the retiral to the Siegfried Line. In Nov. 1918 he had to take refuge from his own soldiers, but his candidature for presidency of Bavarian republic was supported by the Centre party.