PRINCE OF WALES.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16433, 29 January 1919, Page 2

PRINCE OF WALES.

INCIDENT "WITH AUSTRALIAN

SOLDIERS

How tho Prince of Wales stood drinks for a battalion of Aussies,. and incidentally proved himself a good fellow, was the theme of a good story told at Spit Junction, Mosman, last week, by Alderman Henderson (says the Sydney

*"Sun")

Th 6 Prince, Alderman Henderson said," was walking with a staff-officor along the Suez Canal, and he "came upon a party of Australians swimming. "Are you Australians?"' the Prince asked.

"Yes, wo are Aussies, your 'Ighness," answered a big shearer from Moree. "How about a pot?'' The staff-officer in horrified tones reprimanded the swimmer. "Don't you know," he said, "that this is the Prince of Wales?"

"Oh, that's all right," the Prince assured him, hugely '. enjoying, the situation. "I understand by a 'pot' that. a glass of ale is meant. Well, come along to the canteen." There were IS or 20 men about ? and they had to over a sandy hill to reach the canteen. Then they lined up for their glass, and the 15 or 20 had grown to 300 or 400. "I know," Alderman Henderson said, "because I was ono of them." (Laughter.) The big shearer from Moree appointed himself a sort of spokesman, and, raising his glass abovo his head, he said, "Well, your 'ighness, here's good luck to you, and may you never marry a blasted German princess!" A burst of cheering followed, which rendered vain the frantic efforts of tho staff officer to silence tho blunt Digger. •

"The prince," Alderman Henderson said, "was a fine chap. Ho laughed with the mon, assured his companion that it was 'quit© all right,' and gave the Australians a definite assurance that he would never go to Germany for his bride." (Lbud cheers.) The story was told at an anti-Ger-man League meeting, where it was strongly urged that the Germans must be kept in their place in Australia until they show contrition for their atrocious conduct become fit companions for decent men.