THE CROWN PRINCE MYSTERY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 215, 27 May 1915, Page 3

THE CROWN PRINCE MYSTERY.

Tli e rumour which .flew round soma time ago that th e Crown P>"nee had died of wounds is again, revived in an article wh;Ch appears in the Paris *T_'lnformation." T K o corespondent mad.; a tptcial voyage t) Lyons to interview a famous Swiss surgeon on a visit there. It was this suigeon who nad' been called in cciir.uilhticn to the bedside of a mysterious masked German in Straslmrg When <ha?, chged di-

rectly as to whoiler his patient was the Crown I'rl.nre, a- eva l«-d the cunstvn by saying that 1 e had m> exact opini'rm en tire ?i:bj«r«.t. Jle acknowledged, however, that he was' in Strasburg at the time mentioned, and had performed' several operations. As to the incident of the wounded and masked man, he said: "'One de.v I was asked* to pronounce on a gra\'3 eas>--. A wounded man who/ had Irs legs shattered'' was brought t'o me and it was not' '.vislicd' that I jfchoji.l -ITivn; bi-d-mrity, so he: was ma'}.'•■. ' ga'.v Mi" opiniom that an Ir lmecliate operation was i i'XiS."Avy. H P .via take.-; %*av

tiui T acve: saw 'him ago.*- 1. .! ; -af"<v.'. however; that the operation took place, and' that the p? .tient had succumbed to it! He died several hours after." When 1 asked; w hy the wounded man wa~s miaskEd hte doctor answered: "That's noS: sa y of my business. Pools have saitl ! it was the Crown Prince., but I havs> mi -y proof of it. It might very well Eia ve been some other official" perscHr..'" The fact remains that the' German lea psrial family is in deep mourning:,. p or whom? No doubt for tlhisi rny*t eriovs ; > •>».<• 'aye, \vl\'«*»er