THE PRINCE’S TOUR.
RENOWN AT HONOLULU. Press Association— Electric Telegraph-Copyright (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) HONOLULU, Tuesday., The United States scout Cruiser Birmingham, accompanied by twenty destroyers, steamed out to meet, 11.M.5. Renown and escort her to Honolulu. The Renown will leave for the Antipodes on Wednesday. PRINCE’S MILITARY" SPIRIT. (Received Thursday, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Wednesday. Sir George Arthurs, in the official life of Lord Kitchener, records that the Prince of Wales pleaded with Lord Kitchener to permit him to accompany his regiment to the front, in 1914, saying, “What matter if 1 am shot; I have four brothers.” Lord Kitchener replied: “If I were certain you would be shot I do not know whether 1 would be right in restraining you, but what I cannot* allow is the risk of the enemy securing you as a prisoner. .That chance exists until we have a settled line of battle.”
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14098, 15 April 1920, Page 5
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