THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 67, 18 November 1915, Page 6

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

OCRPORAL’S WIFE AS WAITRESS [Unitbe Press Association.] Sydney, November 17. Files of the San Francisco Chronicle, to hand by the, Ventura,, contain a despatch dated Paris, September 28, giving details of the alleged wounding of the Prince of Wales. The story is that the Prince was taking tea in an inn at a British outpost near Tyres the previous week. The attendant was an attractive young woman, passing as unmarried, but really the wife of a French corporal in a Hussar regiment, named Hnguet. The woman had many admirers among the British staff officers, and Hugueb, becoming aware of 1 the position, grew furiously jealous, though there was really no cause. He wrote to his wife, threatening her that if the reports were true he would shoot her and then himself. He followed this by, obtaining a day’s leave, and unexpectedly returned home. He found the Prince of Wales and another staff officer having tea in the inn. After watching his .wife talking to the two officers for some time, he was seized with blind rage and rushed into the room and fired a couple of shots, one at his wife and* the other at the staff officers. He then turned the weapon on himself, inflicting a wound in. his neck. The, Prince was wounded in the arm, just above the wrist, ■ and both were taken to a field hospital in the Prince’s car and the wounds were dressed. The Prince of Wales reported the incident to the Commander-in-Chief 1 , whose despatch adds: “The corporal is. under military law, liable to he shot, hut probably no official notice will be taken of the incident.” The corporal’s wife left the inn for the hospital, where she is looking after her husband.