PRINCE'S LIFE SAVED

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1930, Page 15 (Supplement)

PRINCE'S LIFE SAVED

STORY BY GREEK PRINCESS. London, July 23. “Both the author and his wife owe a deep debt of gratitude to King George for the promptitude and efficiency of his action, which saved the author’s life,” writes Princess Alice of Battenberg, 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 Greek army was overwhelmed by disaster in 1922 owing to treachery in its own ranks, the instigators of the downfall formed a' military government in Athens and told Prince Andrew he could stay on his property in Corfu if he resigned from the army, A month later he was arrest 1 cd, tried by court-martial and sentenced to death.

The Princess continues: “King George, realising Prince Andrew’s deadly peril, took Die necessary steps, resulting in Lord Curzon sending put Captain Gerald Talbot, afterwards knighted for his eer-j vices, who by a miracle got the authpii out of the clutches of the dictators.’add Cdrrled Jiim' and his family away the day lifter the'trial on a British warship/’'’