GERMAN CROWN PRINCE
A SENSATIONAL REPORT \ HAS A PROSAIC ENDING United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received Feb. 11, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 10. The afternoon papers give prominence to a report that the ex-crown Prince of Germany quit the country on the eve of Herr Hitler's purge and arrived at Kufstein on the AustroGerman frontier on February 3 without a passport. He said he was going to Italy, and the authorities allowed him to proceed after identification. They provided him with an escort of two officers and permitted him to enter Italy without a passport. He proceeded to Cortina. Speaking to a representative of the British United Press on the telephone to-day Prince Wilhelm said: “I certainly intend to return to Germany. The passport matter was an accident. My valet forgot it. I am here for the winter sports. All other reports are entirely unfounded.” A later message from Cortina says that Prince Wilhelm’s passport has arrived and he will return to Germany on February 20.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20421, 11 February 1938, Page 7
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