PRINCE’S HOLIDAY

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 September 1924, Page 5

PRINCE’S HOLIDAY

x ALL NIGHT PARTIES.

A THREATENING LETTER.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

NEW YORK, Sept. 3. 'The Prince of Wales spent another night out, being the third in succession. He returned to Mr Burden’s home at daylight. He arose at noon. So that his rest might bo unbroken, troopers were at the gates and they requested motorists entering the grounds to use the back drive. The Prince, during the afternoon, was refreshed, and played strenuously at polo.

Leaving Piping Rock at midnight, the Prince, Lord and Lady Mountbatten, and Lord and Lady Milford Haven, attended a jolly party at the home of Mr J. S. Cosden. The fun there was continued till daylight. The Prince has declined to attend the reception to the United States world fliers at New York on Sunday, he having rigidly excluded official functions from his holiday.

One of the Prince’s attendants expressed surprise at the crowds following the Prince of Wales. He de clared that Hie Prince objected to too much public attention in England and the colonies, but an English crowd never' breaks the cordon. A letter to the Prince of Wales, saying, in part: “If you do not get out of the United States soon, you will meet a violent death,” has been received by the French Consul’s office. The letter is three pages long. Most portions are incoherent. It is postmarked “Syosset.”

DODGING THE CROWDS.

NEW YORK, Sept. 5.

A telegram from Syosset says : The Prince of Wales found isolation in a motor boat trip to Long Island Sound to-night. The air was chilly and the sea rough. There were no pursuing crowds.

After playing polo to-day at Mr J. Phipp’s estate, the Prince took lunch there with Will Rogers, the comedian.

Accompanied by his Equerry, he played golf at Mr Cosden’s place. He left there at five o’clock on a launch and did not announce where he was bound for. POLICE TAKE PRECAUTIONS. NEW YORK, September 5. Every automobile entering Burden’S grounds at Syosset was stopped and scrutinized as the result of the letter threatening the Prince’s life,, which was handed to the New York police. The letter was addressed to the Hon. A. Brouet, acting-British Consul. No one was named in it, and it is not stated whether the Prince was aware of the threat.

His guard, composed of two Scotland Yard inspectors, a squad of New York State troopers, and special agents of the State Department of Police, regard the letter as the product of a harmlessly disordered brain.

The police have requested that if the Prince decides to visit New York city, notice be given to enable a proper guard to be provided.