BIG JEWEL BOBBERY

Southland Times, Issue 19347, 12 September 1924, Page 5

BIG JEWEL BOBBERY

PRINCE’S PARTY THE VICTIMS EXPERT THIEVES AT WORK MR CORDEN’S HOME ENTERED. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, September 10. Received September 11, 11 p.m.) Lady Mountbatten and Mrs Richard Norton, members of the Prince of Wales’s party, have notified the police that thieves entered their rooms in the home of Mr J. S. Gorden, where they are staying, and stole jewels valued at £40,000. Mrs Corden also lost a quantity of valuables. The theft was committed while they were absent at dinner.

The police believe it to be the work of expert thieves, attracted to Long Island by the presence of the Prince’s party. “SICK TO DEATH.” PRINCE’S TORMENT. NERVOUS AND ILL. (Sun Special). LONDON, September 5. There nas been wide discussion of an American despatch purporting to describe an outburst by the Prince of Wales to a passenger on the Berengaria at 3 ami. “Can you imagine the torment of having the eye of every person boring into you every second of evety day?” the Prince is reported to have asked. “I hate this bunk. It is loathsome. I have to go through endless and meaningless ceremonies.” The editor of The People (Mr Hannen Swaffer) issues an appeal to give the Prince a chance. He says that it is easy to understand the Southampton incident, when he refused to be photographed, even after 50 pressmen signed a round-robin asking him to appear on deck. He asserts that the Prince fled from Toquet and Deauville in order to avoid the curious crowds there. The Prince appealed to the photographers, saying, “Please go away. I am sick to death. I can’t have one day to myself.” Mr Swaffer contrasts the Prince’s life with that of his grandfather, when the latter’s frequent visits to the National Sporting Club were not mentioned, and he could do anything he liked without any attention. Constant photographing and paragraphing has got on the Prince’s nerves, and it is no wonder that he is looking nervous and over-strained. It is inconceivable that any human being can endure it much longer, says Mr Swaffer. ROYAL REPARTEE. AMUSING INTERVIEW IN AMERICA. “STAY AWAY BOYS!” (Sun Special). NEW YORK, September 5. “Will you marry an American girl?” The Prince laughed when this question was asked on his arrival in New York. “That is the one question I cannot answer,” he replied, and all efforts of the American interviewers to draw him failed.

The New York newspapers term the Royal visitor “the British Empire’s most priceless possession.” There are two questions which the Prince will not discuss. “Oh, cut that right out,” he said when asked if he were engaged, and if it was true that he had learned to play poker. To a small crowd of 75 reporters he pleasantly declared that he hoped to see some great polo games, and then to travel leisurely westward to his Alberta ranch.

He went through the usual formalities of examination and quarantine. An immigration official questioned him, and got many smiling replies replete with American slang. Then a doctor examined him, and found him sound in mind and limb, and a fit subject to mix with the great American people.