An Extraordinary Story

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 August 1915, Page 3

An Extraordinary Story

AS A SPI. London, August 10. The "i\ew York Tribuuo" prints a btory that a member of the liritish Itoyal Family had the disconcerting experience of being arrested and chained ■with beiug a German spy. Pi/iuce3S Alary, s&ys the story, was held up unier a guard of officers who were sympathetic be (sceptical. When the matter was investigated it was found that the Princes had gone incognito on a visit to the front,, accompanied by Mdlle Bussan, to nieec the Prince of Wale*. Six miles from the village her car was halted by a French patrol. The occupants had forgotten their passports and permits, •and the patrol failed to recognise, the the name of Lady Chester, under which the Princess was travelling. The car was left under a guard, with an assurance that the occupants would he shot at six o'clock next morning. Pour hours later an officer returned fw identify the Princess, whose bona fides "had been established by messages sent from headquarters, which were #n the point of issuing a general alarm for the missing Princess.