FRIEND OFFENDED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 108, 9 May 1928, Page 7

FRIEND OFFENDED.

Blow To Anglo-Rumanian Rapprochement. CAROL VISITS ZOO. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 12 noon.) LONDON, May 8. Carol was notified of the decision at noon. The request was unmistakeably but politely phrased in order not to bring it within the meaning of a deportation order. The Prince was obviously taken aback at this definite confirmation of the Government's attitude.

"This is a terrible blow," he said to M. Jonescu, his host, who complains bitterly that Carol's expulsion has wrecked a decade's hard work to effect an Anglo-Roumanian rapprochement. "How can England now say she is the friend of a little country wiiich lost half of its manhood in the war fighting on the same side." Carol left Surrey by motor car soon after the ultimatum was delivered. He drove to a West End hotel where a lunch had been arranged in his honour, but was cancelled. He lunched privately and subsequently motored by the zoo. He was joined by M. .Tupescu and thence they went back to Surrey bv express.