PRINCE OF WALES.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1915, Page 5

PRINCE OF WALES.

SHOT BY A FRENCHMAN. AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY. Distrusting cables and mail, the following extraordinary story was sent by special messenger from Paris to New' York, and was quickly wished all over the American continent, the despatch being dated September 28, at Paris: Prince Albert of Wales, while taking tea in an inn at a British outpost near Ypres last week, was shot in the arm by a French corporal. The attendant at, the inn is an attrac-tive-looking young woman who was passing as an unmarried girl under the name of Barthou, but as a matter of fact she is married to a corporal in a French hussar regiment, named Huguet. lllle. Barthou had many admirers among the British staff officers, among whom the inn became a popular resort for tea or other refreshments when any of the staff had to visit this part of theßi'itish lines. News of this state of affairs reached the husband, who became furiously jealous. On Saturday last the husband obtained 24 hours' leave from the trencheß, and he unexpectedly turned up at the inn where his wife was employed at about sin the afternoon. The Prince of Wales and another staff officer were having tea in the. inn at the moment, Huguet rushed into the room and without a word of warning fired two shots in rapid succession, one at his wife and another at the two staff officers. Then he turned the weapon on himself. The Prince of Wales was wounded in his arm just above tho wrist. The corporal was taken to a field hospital by the Prince of Wales in his motor-ear, where the Prince also had his wounds dressed. *