BRITAIN'S SOLDIER PRINCE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13972, 19 April 1916, Page 8

BRITAIN'S SOLDIER PRINCE.

MIXING WITH THE TOMMIES. An Italian war ' correspondent, who lately visited tho Britisli front m France, writes: — "We had a new 'proof of the democratic character of the' British Army: When coming back from France we crossed tho Channel on the same boat with the Prinoe of Wales. She was one of the oi*dh"uiry ships employed to carry tlie Tommies back from the trenches for a. short -holiday. She was so full that every was compelled to touch his neighbor. The. Prince of Wales mixed with tlie crowd of Tommies without any special distinction. We foreigners were amazed at the fact of being able to be so, .near to the Heir to the Throne, who' submitted liimsolf to the, sarao treatment' as tho mud-stained soh diers from, the trenches. He walked amongtheni with such, modesty and simplicity that nobody would have suspected that he was of Royal blood. Listeiung to his conversation lie appears to-be endowed with a youthful and sincere bonhqmmie which , endeni's him to all who liaa tho privilege '-.of him : ',' 1 v l ; When we landed the Prince left the ship; 'and . puslied by- the merry crowd "of Tommies,, who seemed to be hurrying ;is much as they could iti order to touch againi with their feet their, native land. His fine smiling face showed how happy hits'. was m; that.. rough and tumultuous ; crowd. I thpiight for. a. moment of th» difference between this 'British Prince and vthe-Goi'nian Grown Prince. 'I hey symbolise two races, two epochs, two political systems, which could wcil b? named Progress and Reaction."