PRINCE'S LIFE SAVED.
KING GEORGE'S ACTION. STORY BY GREEK PRINCESS. LONDON. July 23. " Boih the author and bis wife owe ;i deep debt of gratitude lo King George for the promptitude and efficiency of his action, which saved (he author's life," writes Princess Alice of Batlenberg, wife of Prince Andrew of Greece, in a preface to her translation of her husband's book "Toward Disaster," which the firm of John Murray is publishing. The Princess relates that when .the Creek army was overwhelmed by disaster in 1922 owing to treachery in its own ranks, the instigators of (lie downfall formed a military government in Athens and told Prinze Andrew he could stay on his property in Corfu if he resigned irora the army. A month later he was arrested, tried by court-martial and sentenced to deal li.
The Princess continues: 4i Kinfc George, realising Prince .Andrew's deadly peril, took the necessary steps, resulting in Lord Curzon sending out Captain Gerald lalbot, afterwards knighted for his services, who bv a miracle got. the author out of the clutches of the dictators and carried him and his family away the day after the trial on a I'ritish warship.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20628, 29 July 1930, Page 9
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