PRINCE'S KISS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 106, 5 May 1923, Page 19

PRINCE'S KISS.

UNFORGETTABLE SCENE IN HOSPITAL Never has the true character of the Prince of Wales been revealed more striKtngly than In a little story told to a friend by Lady Klnnalrd a few weeks before her death. It is quoted In "The Children's " The Prince was asked one day if he would visit a private hospital where the patients were 3G men so seriously Injured and disfigured In the war that they could never hope for release. He went, and having been shown round the beds was conducted to the doors. The story process: "lie stopped suddenly ami snld: 'I t»« told you had ry, patients. I bave son only 20.' It was explained to htm tlm' '"* seven other patients vmre *■ rrastal'o dJ*IflKured that the visit to their ward »■■« purposely omitted. For my nr theirs- • seven men Mc was ushered Into tbe »ard where they lay. and at each bed he st '^ and m«n*n the naro, of ■ '-rwn once flgnln, be pa owl a' the doo r "But there are only six m-J,e re/ r-of^^rrsr^rihis-(seventh man (they told hl:.n :■.;■ In n '■'■* in a room to himself, from which he would never stir. I •■ -You must not see Mm. sir. , sal': one of the oHHals. •• T must sr-c him • «nl<l Hie Prin™, •• T.erter not, Mr. Yon en-, ,lo lii:n :o good. .A n<l t'.ir- Bialit :■: terrible.' •■ •Still, I wish to see him." "One member "f thn staff ocmnpniitea the I'rlucc Into that little darkened r<« ra of unutterable trneedr. He relates thnt the I'rlncf. walked firmly to hIM bedside, that he turned very white, but stood tb"re with bowed hend, looking at the man who rould neither see him or hear him, lookIng lit that nwfnl wreck or maniiood ;is though he would see the final anguish of murderous and monstrous war. '•Then, very slowly, the Prince stooped down and kissed the man's face."