TO SAVE A GIRL.

Shannon News, 30 September 1924, Page 4

TO SAVE A GIRL.

“YOU ROUGHNECKS, YOU!” CONSTANTINOPLE, July 27. . The first "Ku Klux Klan formed in Constantinople was disbanded this week in strange circumstances. It all started in Maxim’s., The place was full of Americans. A dense hush fell on the noisy assemblage as a beautiful Ameirlsan girl entered with a handsome Egyptain two ugly Lascar sailors. “That’s her,” whispered the habitues of Maxim’s, “and t}vo of her guards.”

Girl’s Eyes Appeal. It is well known in the American eoiony in Constantinople that Prince Mehihed Ali of Egypt, cousin of . King Fuad, had recently arrived in the former Kaiser’s yacht Meteor and that he had Pearl Shepherd, ah American chorus girl, aboard as a semi-prisoner. The girl threw deeply appealing* glances at her compatriots. But Prince Ali threatened her and finally dragged her away. .

The first “Ku Klux’ Klan” in the Near Eeast was organised just as the Sun crept up behind the Bosphorus that morning, July B. “I swear to be faithful to this ‘Ku Rlux Klan’ and rescue our American compatriot from that awful Egyptian,” solemnly chanted in turn a famous mining engineer, the vicepresident if one of the ■ largest New fork shipping companies, an American lawyer from Paris, and half a dozen other Yankees. ; Vessel Attacked

A native fishing boat noiselessly slid up beside the Meteor in the Sea of Marmo/ra at midnight, when Prince Ali aqd half the crew were carousing ashore. A dozen intrepid had leaped aboard the Meteor and battered down the hatches leading to the crew’s quarters’ and temporarily captured the Meteor in the name of the “Ku Klux Klan” of Constantinople

: “We have come to rescue you,” blurted out the leader as the cabin door suddenly opened ahd the Princess Pearl of Hollywood, U.S.A., angrily appeared in a kimono. \ "You roughnecks have, your nerve with you,,” she retorted, siamming the door in their astonished faces. She was ah actress “making" a picture! '