PRINCE’S LIFE SAVED

Hawera Star, Volume L, 7 August 1930, Page 8

PRINCE’S LIFE SAVED

KING GEORGE’S ACTION

STORY BY GREEK PRINCESS

LONDON, July 23

‘ Both the author and his wife owe a deep debt of gratitude to King George for the promptitude and efficiency -of his action, which saved the author’s life.” writes Princess Alice of Battenberg. wife of Prince Andrew of Greece, in a preface to her translation of her husband’s hook “Toward Disaster.” which the firm of John Murray is publishing. The Princess relates that when the Greek army was overwhelmed by disaster in 1922 owing to* treachery in its own ranks, the instigators of the downfall formed a military government in Athens and told Prince Andrew he could stay on his property in Corfu if be resigned from the army. A month later he was 1 arrested, tried by courtmartial and sentenced to death. The Princess continues : “King George, .realising Prince Andrew’s deadly peril, took the necessary steps, resulting in Lord Curzon sending out Canto in .Gerald Talbot. afterwards j knighted for his .services, who by a miracle got the* author out* of the clulcli.es of the dictators and carried him and his family away (lie dav after the trial on a British warship.”