PRINCE AHMED.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18604, 1 February 1926, Page 9

PRINCE AHMED.

HOW HE ESCAPED.

REMARKABLE NARRATIVE. (ST CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIOHT.) (AUSTBAUAS ASD K.S. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 31st, 13.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 31. The "Sunday News," in a remarkable, exclusive narrative concerning Prince Ahmed Scifeddin, says that lie is now living in a palaeo on the ontof Constantinople with liis mother, who is over seventy.

The Prince always had a bodyguard, in case of an attempt to kidnap him. His friends ddeclare that he is sane, and rational, but suffers from fear. He shouts in his sleep "Let me out!" and tells his friends that he misses the summer air of tho English countrysido and the wild flowers, for which reason ho sent to Sussex for bluebells, which havo been planted in the Palaeo gardens. After his evening meal, tho Prince sometimes asks to i>o ontertained by dancing girls. On other evenings ho retires to smoke or play chess with his mother. ,

It was a pretty Englishwoman who was largely instrumental in Ahmed's escape from Ticehurst. She frequently visited the Princ ewith a woman friend, and finally brought woman's clothing, in which Prince Ahmed escaped. She ha dtho greatest difficulty in persuading him to havo his beard cut off and his head shaved, for this is tho greatest humiliation to a Mohammedan. On arrival in Paris, Prince Ahmed changed into the garb of a Turkish girl, and travelled heavily veiled in tho Oriental express. Tho English girl followed. She us now a resident of Constantinople. [The Egyptian, Princo Ahmed, who had bene an inmate of a private asylum in England for 23 years, disappeared, while on an outing at Hastings. He embarked at Marseilles on September 15tli, 1925, -XL tho steamer Plirygrie, and duly arrived at Constantinople.]