AHMED SEIFEDDIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 26, 1 February 1926, Page 7

AHMED SEIFEDDIN.

ROMANCE OF A PRINCE. ESCAPE FROM MENTAL HOME. LONDON, January 31. The "Sunday New?" publishes a remarkable exclusive narrative concerning the Egyptian Prince. Ahmed Seiferldin. who escaped early in September last from a private mental hospital at Tioehurst. England. The story states that the Prinze is ncnv living , in a palace on the outskirts of Constantinople with his mother, who is over 70 years of age. The Prince always has a bodyguard in ca.-e an attempt should be made to kidnap him. Friends of the Prince declare he is sane and rational but suffers from fear. He shouts in his sleep: "Let nvo out."

He tell? his friends lip misses the summer air of the English countryside and the wild flowers. Therefore he sent to Sussex for some blue-bells, which have been planted in the palace gardens. Aftpr the evening meal thp Prince sometimes asks to be entertained by dancing girls. On other evenings he retires to snioke or to play chess with his mother.

It was a pretty English girl who was largely instrumental in Ahmed's escape from Ticehurst. She frequently visited the Prince with a woman friend.

Finally she took him the woman's clothing in which Ahmed escaped. She had the greatest difficulty in persuading him to have his beard cut off anri his head shaved, for this is a very great humiliation to a Mohammedan.

On his arrival in Paris thp Prince changed into the garb of a Turkish girl. He travelled heavily veiled on the Oriental express. The English girl followed him. and she is now a resident of Constantinople.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.)

The Paris correspondent of the ''Star" says a woman was the master-mind behind Prince Seifeddin's escape. Oermaine Folloni. the wife of a Milan manufacturer, contracted for £-22,000, which she has since been paid, to deliver the Prince at Constantinople. Oermaine studied the situation in England for months, and planned a motor journey to Hastings. She provided women's clothes, into which the Prince changed, after shaving, aboard the Devonia. He stepped ashore at Boulogne wearing a long- coat, picture hat and heavy veil. The Prince always dressed as a woman during his stay with his mother and sister at a Paris hotel.