Prince as a Prisoner.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 July 1914, Page 2

Prince as a Prisoner.

The Prince of Wales who is training With the Oxford University Officers' Training Corps, became a prisoner of war during a "battle" between the Oxford contingent and tHe Brad field College Officers' Training Corps. The Prince's corps was marching to camp at Mitchett farm, Aldershot, when they were attacked . by the Bradfield contingent at Bucklebury Common. The Prince and his . comrade were cut off from their com-' pany and were taken prisoners. They were in the act of delivering up their ammunition, when an Oxford section ran to their assistance, and were ; successful in recovering the Ptince and his comrade. Tho possession of cycles enabled the Bradfield party to make thoir escape. Affcer the fight the officers' cadets were allotted billets in the college gymnasium. The Prince took his blan^^^ ket, and slept down on the floo^Hp with his comrades. At the end of -"'^ the march on the following day, the Prince and his comrades partook of a frugal meal of cold meat, lettuce,. and a hunch of bread ; then,* they were ordered off to their billets for the night, the Prince's "bedroom " being a stable, and his bed a truss of hay, on which he had spread an army blanket. No distinction of any sort is made between him and his companions, and orders are as sharply executed by him as by any youth in the corps. The Prince's sixteen days' encampment with hla fellow-cadets is proving a delightful experience to him. The crowds that come to view the scene with the desire to see their future King are unable to distinguish him from all the rest of the similarly khakiclad cadrts.