"COUNTED OUT" AND THEN "IN"

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 121, 22 May 1926, Page 20

"COUNTED OUT" AND THEN "IN"

PRINCE OF WALES AND THE # - AUSTEALIANS.

Last year the "Manchester Guardian" gave an account from a correspondent of the "counting-out" of the Prince of Wales by the Australian solaiers in Egvot. The first mention of the matter appeared, it is understood, in Mr. D. H. Lawrence's novel "Kangaroo." The "Guardian's" notes were republished in the Australian papers, and the "Daily Herald," Queensland, in reference to them, prints a report of the incident from an eye-witness, who says that it occurred near Tel-el-Kebir in 1916.

His account follows the story already published about the Australians not understanding the distinctions in the British Army as regards military rank. They misunderstood why the Prince (a junior officer) die not take their salute instead of the General (General M'Kay), and thought it a slight' Upon themselves. This story, however, says that the soldiers counted him out not once but several times. The Prince was obviously hurt, the report continues, and when an Australian officer explained the situation to him he rode up when the parade was finished, passed the troops, saluted every regiment, and made it his business to ride ->ast every one. The Australians "by this time had tumbled to the facts of the case, and did their best to make amends by counting him in again, and each group as he passed did this.