PRINCESS MARY IN DANGER

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 198, 10 November 1927, Page 1

PRINCESS MARY IN DANGER

ESCAPE from early morning fire

guests in night attire save children

By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Receivad 11.26 p.m. LONDON, Wednesday. PRINCL'SS MARY and Viscount Lascelles were among the dozen guests of a Yorkshire house party to escape in their niglit attire, when an alarm of fire was given at five o’clock in the morning. The scene of the outbreak was Bretton Park, a timbered old-world mansion standing in 1,000 acres near Wakefield the property of Lord Allendale.

aVE of the guests in a room adjoinV ing the nursery wing, where the ._ originated, heard the flames and routed Lord Allendale’s family. Viscount Lascelles and Lady Allenaie ran into the smoke-filled nursery Li assisted in the escape of three deeping children. princess Man' assisted her husband save some art treasures. The guests, tn various stages of at-

tire, left the house and assisted the | household staff, and later on the local fire brigade, to save the mansion from | destruction. I The floor of the nursery fell through the library. The damage is j estimated at thousands of pounds. ] Telegrams were immediately disl patched to the King and Queen in- | forming them that Princess Mary was 1 safe.—A. and N.Z.

BLAZING NURSERY RESCUE OF CHILDREN (British Official Wireless. — Copyright) Reed. 11.37 a.m. RUGBY, Wednesday. The fire started in the night nursery, where the three children of Lord and Lady Allendale, and a nurse, were sleeping. Lady Allendale herself, dashing past the blazing door of the nursery, was in time to arouse the children and the nurse, who were taken to safety. Princess Mary’s two children were also in the house, but were not apparently in the danger zone.

The Princess was instrumental in saving other persons from serious injury, if not from death. Her Royal Highness, with the other guests who had had to leave their bedrooms, had taken temporary refuge in the library. She expressed the opinion that the ceiling of the library, which was below the nursery, threatened to fall in and suggested that all should leave the room. She told the servants, who were using fire extinguishers, to come away. The ceiling later fell in.—A. and N.Z.