PRICE OF PRINCE'S LIFE.
FRENCH DOCTOR'S FEE.
RETURN OF TRIBUTE.
Times and Sydney Sun Services.
(Received October 22, 7 30 p.m.)
London, October 21
A German prince, of very high rank was wounded in the fighting at Epernay, south-west of Rheims. No Gorman surgeon was in the. town, and a staff-officer obtained Dr. Veron, a celebrated French surgeon, who agreed to perform an operation on condition he was paid whatever fee he demanded. After the operation he asked for a fee of £7000, the sum which the Germans had levied on Epernay. The amount was paid the same evening in gold, the coin bearing the Kaiser's head. The Germans had also stolen 50,000 bottles of champagne.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15747, 23 October 1914, Page 6
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