ESCAPED PRINCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 February 1926, Page 5

ESCAPED PRINCE

REAL “FILM” STORY.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

LONDON, January 31.

The “Sunday News” in a remarkable exclusive narrative concerning Prince Ahmed Seifedden (who escaped from England last year, where he was under private detention) says he is now living in a. palace on the outskirts of Constantinople with his mother, who is over seventy. The Prince always has a bodyguard in case of attempt to kidnap him. His friends' declare that he is sane and rational, but suffers from - fear. He shouts in his sleep, “Let me out.” He tells his friends that he misses the summer air of the English countryside, and the wild flowers, for which reason he sent to Sussex for bluebells which have been planted in the - Palace gardens. After the evening meal the Prince sometimes asks to be entertained by dancing girls. On other evenings he 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 Prince with a woman friend, and finally brought woman’s clothing in which Ahmed escaped. She had the greatest difficulty in persuading him to have his beard cut off and his head shaved, for this is the greatest humiliation to a Mohammedan. On arrival in Paris, the Prince changed into the garb of a Turkish girl and travelled heavily veiled in the Oriental express. The English girl followed. She is now a resident of Constantinople..